It’s strange how an otherwise nondescript structure can become a landmark, but that’s just what this little shed, sided with blue shingles, was for me. Located at the Mobley Bluff Road, just off the Ocmulgee River, it appears to have been a pump house or shed of some sort. I drove past it hundreds of times over the years. It was recently lost to Hurricane Helene. This photograph was made circa 2008.
Brian, the pumphouse was on my paternal grandparents’ property. Grover Cleveland and Rebecca Campbell Fussell lived in the house next to it until their home burned around 1966. I’ve always loved seeing the pumphouse and am sad to know it’s a Helene casualty.
Brian, the news is sad, but I’m grateful for your post. This pumphouse was on my paternal grandparents’ property–Grover Cleveland and Rebecca Campbell Fussell. Their home burned around 1966; the pumphouse is slightly east of the home’s foundation. I loved the cobalt shingles. On a side note, Grover Fussell’s mother, Mary Mobley, is buried with her family and not in the current Fussell Cemetery. My great grandparents, Bud and Mary Mobley Fussell, lived in the large home with the huge magnolia tree that’s across the highway. That tree is impressive!
Wow, Lorraine! Thanks for this information and the memories. I never knew of the house there, since it was gone before I was born, but what a neat connection. I was very sad to see it go, too.
Look at those trees next to it, I am willing to bet they were not there when it was built. They have been there a long time.
I think us “noticers” all subliminally hold things in our minds and for whatever reason some of those things become special to us over time.
Thanks for posting.