glass man
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BACK IN THE 70S I SPENT MANY WONDERFUL HOURS LOOKING AROUND WHERE ONCE A FEW THOUSAND SOULS HAD LIVED FROM THE 1870S TO THE 30S....BY THE 70S WHEN I FOUND IT ..NOTHING! MAYBE 5 PEOPLE LIVED IN THE AREA.
FOLKS FROM MASS. HAD COME HERE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR FOR THE IRON ORE.
I HAD TO BE VERY WATCHFUL FOR THE 40FT.OR SO WELLS [THEY HAD GROWN OVER AND IF YOU FELL INTO THE WELL THERE WAS NO ONE TO HEAR YOUR SCREAMS! THIS WAS HIGH COUNTRY [AROUND HERE ANY WAY] PLACE WAS CALLED "BLUFFTON ALA "..YOU CAN GOOGLE IT AND SEE WHAT BIG PLANS WERE LAID OUT FOR IT...WAS GONNA BE BE BIGGER THEN BIRMINGHAM ALA. WAS GONNA A HAVE A COLLEGE AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS,BUT THE IRON ORE PROVED TO BE OF AN INFERIOR TYPE,NOT THE VERY HIGH GRADE THEY FIRST THOUGHT.
THERE WAS A HOTEL WITH 185 ROOMS IN IT.RUDYARD KIPLING ONCE STAYED THERE...THE NORTHENERS CAME IN THE SUMMER FOR THE WATER,PIVNICS ETC.
IT WAS BUILT BY FOLKS FROM MASS. THE CHURCH STILL STANDS "SALEM CHURCH"..WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE THE HUGE OAK TREES STILL STOOD LINING THE FRONT OF THE HOTEL THEN AS WELL AS THE FOUNDATION TO THE HUGE HOTEL[FOUND AN UNEMBOSSED WHISKEY AT THE BOTTOM...A PERSON WORKING IN THE BOILER ROOM TAKING A LITTLE NIP..OR HIDDING THERE DRINKING NOT TO BE FOUND OUT? ,THE OAKS WERE TORN TO PIECES BY TORNADOS AND THE FOUNDATION WAS BULLDOZED OVER AND A MOBILE HOME SETS ON IT NOW..[IRONIC]
[SAW A PICTURE OF IT WAS HUGE AND BEAUTIFUL...A TRAIL WAS STILL THERE THAT LEAD FROM THE RAIL ROAD TRACKS TO THE HOTEL..IT WAS A UPWARD CLIMB WITH A DEEP WELL HALFWAY UP TO QUINCE THE THIRST OF THE TRAVELERS.
I COULD FEEL THE HISTORY AND THE SPIRITS THAT SEEMED TO LINGER HERE....SAW DEER THERE...WAS SO QUITE . THEY HAD A IRON ORE MILL AND GUN SHOP THERE....
WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE SO PEACEFUL.
I KNEW THERE HAD TO BE A TOWN DUMP THERE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES THE CHEROKEE INDIANS HID TILL FOUND AND SENT ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS YEARS BEFORE..SO MUCH HISTORY!
ONE DAY I FOUND A INDENTED DITCH FILLED WITH GLASS SHARDS EVERY WHERE! EUREKA~!I KNEW IT HAD NOT BEEN DUG BECAUSE ON TOP WAS A MINT WHOLE CEDARTOWN BOTTLELING WORKS BOTTLE SODA STRAIGHT SIDE PERIOD! [CEDARTONN IS MY HOME.] MAN I WAS EXCITED..I DUG AND DUG AND FOUND ONLY PIECES OF BOTTLES! FRUSTRATING...I THOUGHT I HAD SURLY FOUND THE MOTHER LOAD. AT THE LAST I DUG A "HALLS CURE! THAT WAS IT..MAN WAS I SAD! BUT THE DIG WAS SO EXCITING.. WONDERFUL TIME!...EVEN THOUGH LITTLE BOTTLES FOUND!
EVER THOUGHT SURLY YOU HAD FOUND A BONANZA ONLY TO BE DISAPPOINTED LIKE THIS?
ONE HUGE VICTORIAN HOUSE STANDS...WILL TAKE PICTURES OF THE PLACE SOON I HOPE! JAMIE
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FOLKS FROM MASS. HAD COME HERE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR FOR THE IRON ORE.
I HAD TO BE VERY WATCHFUL FOR THE 40FT.OR SO WELLS [THEY HAD GROWN OVER AND IF YOU FELL INTO THE WELL THERE WAS NO ONE TO HEAR YOUR SCREAMS! THIS WAS HIGH COUNTRY [AROUND HERE ANY WAY] PLACE WAS CALLED "BLUFFTON ALA "..YOU CAN GOOGLE IT AND SEE WHAT BIG PLANS WERE LAID OUT FOR IT...WAS GONNA BE BE BIGGER THEN BIRMINGHAM ALA. WAS GONNA A HAVE A COLLEGE AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS,BUT THE IRON ORE PROVED TO BE OF AN INFERIOR TYPE,NOT THE VERY HIGH GRADE THEY FIRST THOUGHT.
THERE WAS A HOTEL WITH 185 ROOMS IN IT.RUDYARD KIPLING ONCE STAYED THERE...THE NORTHENERS CAME IN THE SUMMER FOR THE WATER,PIVNICS ETC.
IT WAS BUILT BY FOLKS FROM MASS. THE CHURCH STILL STANDS "SALEM CHURCH"..WHEN I FIRST WENT THERE THE HUGE OAK TREES STILL STOOD LINING THE FRONT OF THE HOTEL THEN AS WELL AS THE FOUNDATION TO THE HUGE HOTEL[FOUND AN UNEMBOSSED WHISKEY AT THE BOTTOM...A PERSON WORKING IN THE BOILER ROOM TAKING A LITTLE NIP..OR HIDDING THERE DRINKING NOT TO BE FOUND OUT? ,THE OAKS WERE TORN TO PIECES BY TORNADOS AND THE FOUNDATION WAS BULLDOZED OVER AND A MOBILE HOME SETS ON IT NOW..[IRONIC]
[SAW A PICTURE OF IT WAS HUGE AND BEAUTIFUL...A TRAIL WAS STILL THERE THAT LEAD FROM THE RAIL ROAD TRACKS TO THE HOTEL..IT WAS A UPWARD CLIMB WITH A DEEP WELL HALFWAY UP TO QUINCE THE THIRST OF THE TRAVELERS.
I COULD FEEL THE HISTORY AND THE SPIRITS THAT SEEMED TO LINGER HERE....SAW DEER THERE...WAS SO QUITE . THEY HAD A IRON ORE MILL AND GUN SHOP THERE....
WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE SO PEACEFUL.
I KNEW THERE HAD TO BE A TOWN DUMP THERE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES THE CHEROKEE INDIANS HID TILL FOUND AND SENT ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS YEARS BEFORE..SO MUCH HISTORY!
ONE DAY I FOUND A INDENTED DITCH FILLED WITH GLASS SHARDS EVERY WHERE! EUREKA~!I KNEW IT HAD NOT BEEN DUG BECAUSE ON TOP WAS A MINT WHOLE CEDARTOWN BOTTLELING WORKS BOTTLE SODA STRAIGHT SIDE PERIOD! [CEDARTONN IS MY HOME.] MAN I WAS EXCITED..I DUG AND DUG AND FOUND ONLY PIECES OF BOTTLES! FRUSTRATING...I THOUGHT I HAD SURLY FOUND THE MOTHER LOAD. AT THE LAST I DUG A "HALLS CURE! THAT WAS IT..MAN WAS I SAD! BUT THE DIG WAS SO EXCITING.. WONDERFUL TIME!...EVEN THOUGH LITTLE BOTTLES FOUND!
EVER THOUGHT SURLY YOU HAD FOUND A BONANZA ONLY TO BE DISAPPOINTED LIKE THIS?
ONE HUGE VICTORIAN HOUSE STANDS...WILL TAKE PICTURES OF THE PLACE SOON I HOPE! JAMIE
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] Sometimes, just being somewhere historically cool is just as fond a memory as hauling out buckets full of bottles.. I had luck as a kid pulling bottles out of creeks and one great dig in the 90's.. other than that, it's been a heluva good time just poking around old spots like that, imagining how it used to be back in the day..
