This is located near Pembroke on US 280.
Update: As of 2020, this barn is no longer standing.
Tobacco Barn, Bryan County
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Tobacco Barn, Telfair County
This was one of a row of several identical tobacco barns. All are now gone.
Log Tobacco Barn Ruins, Ben Hill County
This was photographed in 2002 and gone by 2010.
Powell Farm, Lanier County
The Powell farmhouse is located just north of Lakeland. It’s an interesting vernacular form which immediately caught my eye as I was driving toward Pearson. It’s part of an historic farmstead that is presently listed for sale. The house appears to date to the late 19th century, perhaps the 1870s.
Two pack houses or seed barns are located on the property.
A nice tobacco barn also survives.
Update: Sadly, as of 2019, the farm has been demolished, with not a building left as I understand it.
Historic Farmstead, Irwin County
These images were made in 2016. I last photographed this farm in 2010. In my younger days, riding all the dirt roads of Irwin County, it was a favorite landmark. Returning recently, I was amazed how much the property has deteriorated.
Above is fuller view of the house, made in 2010.
The wonderful old hay and stock barn remains, but it will soon be gone, like the sheds which stood adjacent.
The sheds were already beginning to collapse when I made this photograph in 2010.
Other barns, in varying states of ruin, are scattered around the property.
The syrup shed I photographed in 2010 is also gone.
The barn below was likely a tractor barn.
The storage barn or packhouse is holding up better than most of the other structures.
The tobacco barn is nearly gone, too.
It was a sad sight, driving away from the main yard.
And at last, the old tenant house is still intact.
Note: This updates and replaces a post made on 25 February 2010.
Tobacco Barn, Ben Hill County
Carver Farm, Irwinville Farms, 1936
This home was built for the Carver family by the Irwinville Farms Project, an initiative of the Farm Security Administration. Because the houses were utilitarian and therefore quite small, most families outgrew them. A variety of expansions can be seen on most of the surviving Irwinville Farms houses today; the Carver house has a minimal addition at the rear but it’s still one of the best examples of the way houses were originally built on the project.
I’ve photographed the tobacco barn on the farm many times over the years, and it remains one of my favorites. It’s an iconic symbol of Irwinville Farms.
Log Tobacco Barn, Tattnall County
Seeing one of these old log tobacco barns through the edge of the woods is always exciting.
Tobacco Barn, Ben Hill County
This tarpaper-sided barn on Sweetpea Road has been hidden by trees for years.
Log Tobacco Barn, Bulloch County
I found this old log tobacco barn with a bit of its tar paper siding still intact on Old Groveland Road near the Bulloch-Bryan county line. It probably dates to the late 1930s. There was an old sign propped against it, advertising a tent revival by the Christ Gospel Church dating to 2012.