This house has been deteriorating rapidly since I first began photographing in Clay County ten years ago. The shake roof still survives under later shingles.
On 2 December 2019, Rodney Hiers wrote: This house was just recently torn down…saw it over the holidays.
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Built for attorney John C. Wells, this home was purchased by Robert C. McAllister as a gift for his wife in 1897. The kitchen of the house was the first Clay County courthouse until the present courthouse was built. It was used as a school until being purchased by Wells and attached to this house.
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Fort Gaines Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
Thanks to Jana Anderson Lindsey for the identification.
Though you may see them from time to time, Georgia’s iconic fire towers are actually quite endangered. In the late 1980s, the Georgia Forestry Commission began phasing out the tower operators in favor of an air patrol system. Many were scrapped and sold and of the ones that remain, some are used when air service is unavailable.
A marker at the gate indicates the Ingram family began farming this land around 1850.
