I don’t recall the location of this house, but I found it in my Long County folders. I believe it was built in the late 1800s and is a great example of a central hallway cottage, expanded for a growing family.
This trailer, along with a couple more, was located on an old farm I was invited to photograph about 15 years ago. I don’t think it was an Airstream, but it looked like one. It may have served as temporary housing.
This little building is definitely a barn today, but the screen door on the front indicates it may indeed have once been a country store. The signs identify it as Blocker’s Grocery. I’m not sure it was originally located in this spot, but it’s a great preservation of a bygone era, either way. I miss those old Sunbeam bread signs.
I don’t often document convenience stores, but before a chain dollar store moved into the community, the Fast Track was the de facto shopping center for the Beards Creek community. I think they sold a little bit of everything and had a laundromat.
This photograph was also made in 2012, when I began documenting signs of the growing Hispanic population around Beards Creek. The colors of the Mexican flag were painted on this store building and a sign for a nearby Hispanic church is also visible.
When I made this photograph in 2012, the Beards Creek neighborhood was well on its way to becoming a center of the hard-working Hispanic community of Tattnall County. Though located in northern Long County, unincorporated Beards Creek is home to many of the people who make Tattnall County’s Vidalia Onion business possible. La Cueva de Aguila, the Cave of the Eagle or Eagle’s Cave, is no longer in business, but there are other restaurants and churches in the area catering to the growing Hispanic population.
I made this photo in 2013 and thought the barn might be gone, but Eddie Roberson and wrote to say that it is still standing. And Beverly R. Armstrong noted, “It’s my Grandma Mrs Emma Lee Wright’s homestead property.” Also, I identified it as being in Tattnall County but instead it is northern Long County.
I’ve always been intrigued by homemade signs, especially church signs. I photographed this one in 2010.
I’ve photographed this barn, near the Henry Walcott House, many times over the years. I’m not sure if it’s still standing.
This photograph from my archives dates to 2014.