cheese
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My wife and I took the day off from the daily grind and the house remodel and just went for a drive down some of the back country roads and took some pictures. Here are some pics of some of the roads, cotton in the field, Georgia swamps, an old confederate bridge built when union prisoners were being evacuated from Savannah to Andersonville when Savannah was being burned. It was used by the locals until the 1980s or so, then it got to be fit to fish off of but not to drive on. I caught a load of catfish off this bridge over the years. Now it's blocked off and not accessible to the public.
This town was established in the 1820's and settled a little earlier. When explorers got here, soome of these old dirt roads were already here...the indians created them and were salt trade routes. One explorer noted that the banks of a particular trail now known as magnolia road were "high as a horses' bridle"...so they've been in use for a looong time... probably thousands of years. We also saw an old graveyard where the vaults were showing out the eroding road bank, and what's left of a near ghost town called metcalf.
It was a fun day. I need a better camera and I think we'll do this more often.
This town was established in the 1820's and settled a little earlier. When explorers got here, soome of these old dirt roads were already here...the indians created them and were salt trade routes. One explorer noted that the banks of a particular trail now known as magnolia road were "high as a horses' bridle"...so they've been in use for a looong time... probably thousands of years. We also saw an old graveyard where the vaults were showing out the eroding road bank, and what's left of a near ghost town called metcalf.
It was a fun day. I need a better camera and I think we'll do this more often.
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