Category Archives: Ludowici GA

2018 South Georgia Snowstorm

On 3 January 2018, Southeast Georgia, was transformed into a winter wonderland. According to the National Weather Service: “Beginning in the early morning hours of January 3rd, 2018, a rare winter storm affected southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. The storm produced a variety of wintry precipitation, including snow, sleet and freezing rain. Snowfall spread across much of southeast Georgia with snowfall amounts ranging from a trace to 3.5 inches...”

As snow goes, it may not seem like much, but many locales received their first measurable snowfall in nearly 30 years.

Snow plows and sand trucks are rarely seen in these parts.

The snow was nicest in the woods.

Because of the novelty of this kind of weather in our part of the world, people were out enjoying it throughout the day.

Davis-Chapman House, Ludowici

Thanks to Mike McCall for sharing this photograph. This Plantation Plain house, which was located near the traffic light in Ludowici, has been gone for quite a few years. It is also identified as the Clyde Chapman House.

Smart House, Ludowici

This Folk Victorian cottage is best remembered as the home of Annie Poppell Smart (1885-1972).

Gable Front House, Ludowici

This house is pictured in the 1922 real photo postcard (above). The First Baptist Church relocated and the community house/library took its place. I hope to learn more about the house.

Ludowici Community House & Library

This was best known as Ludowici’s’ community house and library but in recent years it was a clubhouse for the Wingmen Motorcycle Club. Sadly, it was lost to fire in 2015.

A. B. Stafford House, Ludowici

This was originally a boarding house, with a four-over-four configuration. It has been greatly modified over time. Mike McCall, whose grandfather, A. B. (Braz) Stafford, owned the house for many years, recalls that some of the doors still had room numbers on them when he was young. It is thought to have been one of the earliest hotels in Ludowici and may have originally been known as the Horne House.

Update: As of 2023, this house has been torn down.

Dr. Leland Branch House, Ludowici

The nicest feature of this Craftsman bungalow is the wide porch, extending to the port cochere.