This Queen Anne cottage is just north of the South Metter Historic District but is perhaps the finest example of the form in town. I’m not sure if the design is from a pattern book or is just the work of a local carpenter, but it’s a great little house.
The Trapnell-Boyd House is one of the finest examples in Metter of this eclectic architectural style that dominated small Georgia towns around the turn of the 20th century. I would be just as comfortable calling it Folk Victorian as I would Neoclassical.
South Metter Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
While re-editing my Candler County images, I came across this tobacco barn. The photo was made in July 2012. I don’t know if the barn is still standing.
The Evans County Courthouse was built in 1923 at a cost of $60,000, replacing temporary offices in the White Building. It was one of several in the area designed by prolific courthouse architect J. J. Baldwin.
National Register of Historic Places
I photographed this house in 2013. It was unusual because it was architectural in style. The two side-by-side front doors are a common feature of double shotgun houses. I presume it was a tenant house. I attempted to relocate it in 2022, but it was gone.
Note: This updates and replaces a post originally published as “Pyramidal Roof Tenant House, Evans County”, on 22 February 2013.
The cemetery associated with historic Eureka Church is the last remaining public landmark of The Level, a Black community near Hagan. The church collapsed circa 2018. A nice collection of vernacular memorials set Eureka Cemetery apart as a historic resource for Evans County. I am sharing random shots, including commercial markers, but focusing on the vernacular pieces.
I believe the name was misspelled on this memorial, as there are others buried here whose name is Collins.
Like many in this Freedmen’s congregation, Leasan Ray was likely born enslaved.
The fallen marker notes that Mary Wright was aged 59 years at the time of her death.
This is one of the earlier commercially made memorials in the cemetery, featuring a dove.
This marker has no information, but was likely meant for a family.
The only information, other than the decedent’s name, notes that she was Bob Small’s sister.
Venus Bacon’s marker is an early commercial form with stenciled lettering.
The hearts were a nice addition on this handmade memorial.
Mr. Wright was a Private, 52 Co, 157 Depot Brigade, World War I.
I have tried to interpret the words on this memorial to no avail.
The red star likely denotes a Masonic affiliation.
All the Jones family memorials have a similar shape and were likely the work of the same maker. This small stone has faded badly.
I will try to add birth and death dates if I am able to interpret them. I believe they all may be children.
Like the memorial for Jim Jones, Mary Jones’s features the name in cursive.
The memorial for D. V. Richardson is perhaps the most notable work in the cemetery. It features hand lettering and an unusual symbol, seen in detail above. It appears to have something to do with carpentry or, perhaps, Masonry.
These tin-sided warehouses dominate the downtown area of Bellville and are remnants of the railroad era. The mural was added sometime after I first photographed the buildings in 2009.
Note: This replaces a post originally posted on 5 November 2009.
This simple Georgian cottage is enhanced by a Craftsman-inspired front porch. Property records date it to circa 1940, but I believe it was built earlier.
This Queen Anne cottage is one of the finest works of residential architecture in Glennville, located right in the heart of downtown. The Hughes family was prolific in the area, but I haven’t located much about the Coates family. Cemetery records indicated Charles Marion Coates (1882-1935) and Eula DeLoach Coates (1887-1951) lived in Glennville around the time this house was built.
Elder Abraham Jackson was the patriarch of Jackson Town, a historically Black neighborhood near Collins, Georgia, and he and his family were among the earliest burials in what would become the Jackson Cemetery, still dominated by his descendants and cousins today. The cemetery is very well-maintained.
Born enslaved in Barnwell, South Carolina, Elder Jackson later served (1865-1866) in Co. C, 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Colored), which was redesignated Co. C, 33rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops. He married Rilla, whose last name remains unknown, in the 1850s.
This memorial for Anna Collins, the very wife of Henry Collins, is the earliest grave I found in Jackson Cemetery. She may have been Elder Jackson’s sister-in-law.
Nellie was the wife of George Jackson. Her vernacular memorial, which has been repaired, is very similar to that of Anna Collins. It reads: Dear husbad (sic) and children. as you is now, once was I, and as I am now you must be. Remember death and follow me.