This is the last of the Irwinville Farms locations I’ll be sharing for a while. I’m hoping to document more the next time I’m in the area. This one is located near Jeff Davis Park and is another good example of the quality construction of the Irwinville Farms project. I really wish all the surviving structures of the project could be added to the National Register of Historic Places, or at least recognized locally. The families that have maintained them for nearly 90 years obviously appreciate them and I am grateful for that.
My Craftsman house in Irwinville was built before the Irwinville Farm Project by my grandparents in 1929. There are other houses older than mine in Irwinville as well. We are proud of our history associated with the Farm Project.
Is that the one by Morehead’s Pecan? I love that house and need to get a photo next time I’m out there.
As always great stuff Brian. Several years ago l left a comment about the demise of the wonderful 2 story “shade” (cigar wrapper) tobacco barns in the area around Quincy, FL including the area between Bainbridge, GA and the FL line. We began driving through that area in route to Apalachicola, FL in 1983 when there were still at least a dozen still standing with each one seemingly exactly like all the others. Sadly today we pass only one on FL hwy 65 just south of Gretna, FL. I know it is not in GA but I’m betting all your readers would love this fading surviver being documented!
Ben, I love those shade tobacco barns. There were about three left around Cavalry, Georgia, a few years ago. I believe one may have been destroyed in recent storms.