Category Archives: Wefanie GA

Central Hallway Farmhouse, Long County

This is a nice example of the common central hallway form, likely dating to the late 19th century.

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Double-Pen Farmhouse, Long County

I believe this is now the clubhouse for the Jones Creek Fox Pen, a local hunting club.

There’s an amazing Live Oak in front of the house, even if it’s “young” by Live Oak standards.

Turpentine Cabin, Wefanie

Turpentine Cabin, Wefanie

Wefanie GA Long County Abandoned Farmhouse Turpentine Shack Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

This tenant house was part of the Jim Parker turpentine/timber operation. Along with the privy and barn in the two posts that follow this one, it was recently exposed when the surrounding woods were thinned.

Wefanie GA Long County Abandoned Vernacular Farmhouse Turpentine Era Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

Wefanie was never really a town in the proper sense of the word, but was a busy logging and turpentine community with its own whistle-stop in its prime. I have no idea where the name originates.

Wefanie GA Long County Vernacular Farmhouse Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

The cardboard seen below was used for insulation.

Wefanie GA Long County Vernacular Farmhouse Cardboard Insulation Tenant Shack Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

As the Fanta carton would suggest, this was probably occupied well beyond the turpentine era. This is one sight I’m glad to see vanishing.

Wefanie GA Long County Abandoned Turpentine Shack Cardboard Fanta Drink Boxes Used as Insulation Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

Privy, Wefanie

Abandoned Privy Outhouse Wefanie GA Long County Picture Image Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2013

Old privies, or outhouses as they’re more commonly known in our neck of the woods, are quite rare these days. They’re still found at some country churches and a few people have retained them on family properties, but most seen today are reproductions put to other uses, such as tool or potting sheds.

Parker Cabin, 1920s, Wefanie

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