These are among the last of the millworker’s houses in the Fitzgerald Cotton Mills that haven’t been covered with vinyl siding.
The utilitarian structures were provided to employees of the mill and many families remained in them after the mill closed.
This was the last in original condition; I photographed it in 2009 and it was razed by 2010.
The Fitzgerald Cotton Mills, seen on a vintage postcard, circa 1912.
Located between Jacksonville and Lumber City, the Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve is a largely undisturbed area of longleaf pine, sandhills, bottomland forests and swamps along the Ocmulgee River set aside to help protect the Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) and associated species.
Public Domain Photograph by Pete Pattavina, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The Hooded Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia minor) is one of the more common species of carnivorous plants in South Georgia.
Vanishing Georgia: Photographs by Brian Brown 