This hall and parlor cottage is located behind the William H. J. Foy House in the middle of Egypt. The village of Egypt, that is. Egypt isn’t well known beyond the borders of Effingham County, but it’s one of my favorite crossroad communities in Southeast Georgia. The Foy family was in the area long before E. E. Foy came from Rocky Ford and made Egypt a boomtown. At its peak, Susan Exley notes that Foy’s sawmill and planing mill, known as the E. E. Foy Manufacturing Company, processed 60,000 board feet of lumber per day and brought thirty families into the area. The boom didn’t last, but it put Egypt on the map.

Some sources have suggested that this was one of the millworker’s houses, while others believe it may have been an earlier tenant house related to the Foys. It’s an amazing survivor, and though this photograph dates to 2014, the quaint little cottage is still standing, albeit more hidden by vegetation today.