This is a wonderful survivor containing original elements such as the window shutters and chimneys.
Tenant Farmhouse, Ogeechee
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Category Archives: –SCREVEN COUNTY GA–
Front Porch, Ogeechee
Single Pen Farmhouse, Ogeechee
This common style, often called “Cracker”, remains a signature of our landscape. This single-pen form has a shed room on the front porch. In larger houses, this room is sometimes known as a preacher’s room, for traveling clergy who traveled on horseback and needed a place to bed down for the night.
Paradise Restaurant, Cooperville
The old Paradise Restaurant and adjoining motel were among numerous businesses that took advantage of the busy automobile traffic on U. S. Highway 301, a primary route for tourists along the Atlantic seaboard in the days before interstates. The present sign was erected in 1956 but the restaurant and adjacent hotel were built a bit earlier. [I thought it was a Howard Johnson’s per the color scheme, but Dale Reddick notes that it was not affiliated with that chain].
This sign was among the most-photographed landmarks on US 301 in Georgia; in 2016 the property was razed but the sign saved for use at a restaurant across the highway.
Though the post office across busy U. S. Highway 301 is designated as Dover, this is actually Cooperville. Cooperville was a center of religious, educational and social activity in the antebellum era. It was established by William Cooper about 1790 when he acquired the 1100 acres originally granted to Noble Jones. His home, later added to by his brother, George Cooper, stood about 1/2 mile west of this marker. The village was the home of Wilson C. Cooper, the educator who established nearby Cooper College; George Cooper II, inventor of the “Cooper plow” also lived in the area…
Abandoned Service Station, Cooperville
I understood that this was demolished in 2016, but someone recently noted (2025) that it is still standing.
Cooperville School,1910, Screven County
This now serves as the local community house.
Georgian Cottage, Dover
Shorty Wyant’s Store, Dover
June Bellah writes: I remember going in this store as a kid. It belonged to an old man named Mr. Shorty!! My mama grew up there in Dover. Steve Johnson notes, via Facebook, that Mr. Shorty’s name was W. W. Wyant.
Hiltonia, Georgia
Hiltonia is located on Georgia Highway 24, between Sylvania and Sardis.
T. W. Limerick General Merchandise, Hiltonia
Lester Springer writes: This was my grandfather’s store (Tom & Dody Limerick). Have many fond memories of it. It was a bustling place in the sixties and early seventies. A meeting place for the whole community. Many afternoons and evenings more than 20 people gathered on the front porch drinking cokes, smokin’ , chewing tobacco, shelling peas, eating, and just being friends.
I had a nice visit with Wade Ward yesterday, who has purchased this old store in an effort to save it. Wade has no immediate plans for the building, but has an interest in old buildings and the preservation of our small towns.