This little building was home to a ceramics studio known as the Nancy Fore Ceramics Cottage. Nancy Fore (1911-1994) was the wife of beekeeper Troy Fore, Sr. (1907-1976) who owned the Altamaha Apiaries and the iconic “Fancy Honey” building around the corner.
This was the home of the Fore family who owned the beloved “Fancy Honey” building next door.
The core of this house is an outstanding example of what I believe to be a late-19th-century hall-and-parlor cottage. It has been expanded and modified as have other examples of vernacular houses in Gardi, but the original house is a representative example. It also includes a preacher room that appears to have been turned into a sleeping porch at some point.
This was a new discovery for me yesterday. It’s obviously a general store, judging by the form, and has long been closed. The middle of the building is sagging so badly that my initial though was that it won’t be around much longer, but it has likely looked like this for a long time. They don’t build them like this anymore.
This expanded central hallway cottage features a vernacular Craftsman portico and shed garages on both sides.
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.