Map of Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain and Links to Maps

Historic 1892 Map of the Rock Mountain and Sand Mountain area. Here's the link to the Google image search where I found the map, but it leads to a Topo site, and that site seems to have no such map, or no easy way to find it. The Google link is to an actual image file on the Rock Mountain Alabama blog, so that's the attribution I've given.

Sand Mountain, West Red Mountain, and McAsman Mt., 1892
Blue Creek Coal Basin in background. Attribution, apparent:
Rock Mountain Alabama, http://rockmountainalabama.com/
Google or Topo attributing it to a 2006 post, no longer extant. 

Here's a link to a great topographic map of the Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain areas. At this site, you can also "build" your own map and they will print it.

Map Links:
Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain Topographic Map
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=34.9110&lon=-85.89470&z=10


Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Zoning Map
http://www.lookoutmountaintn.org/lookout-zoning.pdf


Google Map to Points in the Tri-State Area (including McLemore Cove and surrounding area)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sand+Mountain+Cabinets/@34.8863963,-85.1949291,97091m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8861b56e60e10b51:0xad671c42b8c03899!8m2!3d34.7995672!4d-85.6308661

Google Map: Lebanon, Alabama, to Crawfish Springs site in Chickamauga, Georgia.

Google Map pointing to the historic site of Caperton Springs Ferry
http://alabama.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,115432,n,caperton%20ferry.cfm

Link to Google Route from Valley Head, Alabama, traveling N/NE up Hog Jowl Road (not Hog Jaw Valley Road)

Mapping Points:
These are some sites with mapping points or descriptions of historic sites that helped me find some of the points mentioned in Thatcher's description of the Second Michigan's route over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain:

Historic Site Application which mentions Bailey's Crossroads, which was a historic crossroads near what is now the intersection of Highway 193 and West Cove Road.
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/94001140.pdf

Cedar Grove Cemetery
34-340 S Cedar Ln 
Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia 

Mountain Cove Farms Resort
994 Dougherty Gap Rd, Chickamauga, GA 30707
http://mountaincoveresort.com

Cumberland Plateau in North Georgia, with Map and Description
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/mountains/cumberland_plateau/



PDF File of Google Map: Thatcher's Route with Second Michigan over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain, up to Crawfish Springs near Chickamauga, in September 1863

Fort Payne, Alabama, and Surrounding Area, Historic Topographical Map
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/alabama/txu-pclmaps-topo-al-fort_payne-1898.jpg

Historic Markers in Walker County, Georgia
http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/CountyDetail.cfm?CountyNameKey=Walker

Historic Markers in Georgia (Find by County)
http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/ListCounties.cfm


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5vMY05sIj0PaFpzZ0xwRGs1RzQ/view?usp=sharing

Here's that long, long Google Maps link for the Hog Jowl Road route: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lebanon/Valley+Head,+AL/Hog+Jowl+Road,+Chickamauga,+GA+30707/Crawfish+Spring,+Chickamauga,+GA/@34.6175653,-85.8343187,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x888a76dc8f712a63:0x47d04ad58e2e1a1!2m2!1d-85.8158026!2d34.3659237!1m5!1m1!1s0x8861d2d88f038b11:0x23ada534f5290c47!2m2!1d-85.6149654!2d34.5689732!1m5!1m1!1s0x8860399ab9114b7d:0x51693381051c6b68!2m2!1d-85.4141673!2d34.6970502!1m5!1m1!1s0x88604218045862e9:0xefa2321047b41734!2m2!1d-85.2924564!2d34.8703547!3e0

Map of Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain and Links to Maps

Historic 1892 Map of the Rock Mountain and Sand Mountain area. Here's the link to the Google image search where I found the map, but it leads to a Topo site, and that site seems to have no such map, or no easy way to find it. The Google link is to an actual image file on the Rock Mountain Alabama blog, so that's the attribution I've given.

Sand Mountain, West Red Mountain, and McAsman Mt., 1892
Blue Creek Coal Basin in background. Attribution, apparent:
Rock Mountain Alabama, http://rockmountainalabama.com/
Google or Topo attributing it to a 2006 post, no longer extant. 

Here's a link to a great topographic map of the Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain areas. At this site, you can also "build" your own map and they will print it.

Map Links:
Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain Topographic Map
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=34.9110&lon=-85.89470&z=10


Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Zoning Map
http://www.lookoutmountaintn.org/lookout-zoning.pdf


Google Map to Points in the Tri-State Area (including McLemore Cove and surrounding area)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sand+Mountain+Cabinets/@34.8863963,-85.1949291,97091m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8861b56e60e10b51:0xad671c42b8c03899!8m2!3d34.7995672!4d-85.6308661

Google Map: Lebanon, Alabama, to Crawfish Springs site in Chickamauga, Georgia.

Google Map pointing to the historic site of Caperton Springs Ferry
http://alabama.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,115432,n,caperton%20ferry.cfm

Link to Google Route from Valley Head, Alabama, traveling N/NE up Hog Jowl Road (not Hog Jaw Valley Road)

Mapping Points:
These are some sites with mapping points or descriptions of historic sites that helped me find some of the points mentioned in Thatcher's description of the Second Michigan's route over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain:

Historic Site Application which mentions Bailey's Crossroads, which was a historic crossroads near what is now the intersection of Highway 193 and West Cove Road.
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/94001140.pdf

Cedar Grove Cemetery
34-340 S Cedar Ln 
Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia 

Mountain Cove Farms Resort
994 Dougherty Gap Rd, Chickamauga, GA 30707
http://mountaincoveresort.com

Cumberland Plateau in North Georgia, with Map and Description
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/mountains/cumberland_plateau/



PDF File of Google Map: Thatcher's Route with Second Michigan over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain, up to Crawfish Springs near Chickamauga, in September 1863


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5vMY05sIj0PaFpzZ0xwRGs1RzQ/view?usp=sharing

Here's that long, long Google Maps link for the Hog Jowl Road route: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lebanon/Valley+Head,+AL/Hog+Jowl+Road,+Chickamauga,+GA+30707/Crawfish+Spring,+Chickamauga,+GA/@34.6175653,-85.8343187,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x888a76dc8f712a63:0x47d04ad58e2e1a1!2m2!1d-85.8158026!2d34.3659237!1m5!1m1!1s0x8861d2d88f038b11:0x23ada534f5290c47!2m2!1d-85.6149654!2d34.5689732!1m5!1m1!1s0x8860399ab9114b7d:0x51693381051c6b68!2m2!1d-85.4141673!2d34.6970502!1m5!1m1!1s0x88604218045862e9:0xefa2321047b41734!2m2!1d-85.2924564!2d34.8703547!3e0

Map of Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain and Links to Maps

Historic 1892 Map of the Rock Mountain and Sand Mountain area. Here's the link to the Google image search where I found the map, but it leads to a Topo site, and that site seems to have no such map, or no easy way to find it. The Google link is to an actual image file on the Rock Mountain Alabama blog, so that's the attribution I've given.

Sand Mountain, West Red Mountain, and McAsman Mt., 1892
Blue Creek Coal Basin in background. Attribution, apparent:
Rock Mountain Alabama, http://rockmountainalabama.com/
Google or Topo attributing it to a 2006 post, no longer extant. 

Here's a link to a great topographic map of the Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain areas. At this site, you can also "build" your own map and they will print it.

Map Links:
Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain Topographic Map
http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=34.9110&lon=-85.89470&z=10


Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Zoning Map
http://www.lookoutmountaintn.org/lookout-zoning.pdf


Google Map to Points in the Tri-State Area (including McLemore Cove and surrounding area)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sand+Mountain+Cabinets/@34.8863963,-85.1949291,97091m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8861b56e60e10b51:0xad671c42b8c03899!8m2!3d34.7995672!4d-85.6308661

Google Map: Lebanon, Alabama, to Crawfish Springs site in Chickamauga, Georgia.

Google Map pointing to the historic site of Caperton Springs Ferry
http://alabama.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,2,fid,115432,n,caperton%20ferry.cfm

Link to Google Route from Valley Head, Alabama, traveling N/NE up Hog Jowl Road (not Hog Jaw Valley Road)

Mapping Points:
These are some sites with mapping points or descriptions of historic sites that helped me find some of the points mentioned in Thatcher's description of the Second Michigan's route over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain:

Historic Site Application which mentions Bailey's Crossroads, which was a historic crossroads near what is now the intersection of Highway 193 and West Cove Road.
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/94001140.pdf

Cedar Grove Cemetery
34-340 S Cedar Ln 
Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia 

Mountain Cove Farms Resort
994 Dougherty Gap Rd, Chickamauga, GA 30707
http://mountaincoveresort.com

Cumberland Plateau in North Georgia, with Map and Description
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/mountains/cumberland_plateau/



PDF File of Google Map: Thatcher's Route with Second Michigan over Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain, up to Crawfish Springs near Chickamauga, in September 1863

Fort Payne, Alabama, and Surrounding Area, Historic Topographical Map
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/alabama/txu-pclmaps-topo-al-fort_payne-1898.jpg

Historic Markers in Walker County, Georgia
http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/CountyDetail.cfm?CountyNameKey=Walker

Historic Markers in Georgia (Find by County)
http://www.lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/ListCounties.cfm


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5vMY05sIj0PaFpzZ0xwRGs1RzQ/view?usp=sharing

Here's that long, long Google Maps link for the Hog Jowl Road route: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lebanon/Valley+Head,+AL/Hog+Jowl+Road,+Chickamauga,+GA+30707/Crawfish+Spring,+Chickamauga,+GA/@34.6175653,-85.8343187,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x888a76dc8f712a63:0x47d04ad58e2e1a1!2m2!1d-85.8158026!2d34.3659237!1m5!1m1!1s0x8861d2d88f038b11:0x23ada534f5290c47!2m2!1d-85.6149654!2d34.5689732!1m5!1m1!1s0x8860399ab9114b7d:0x51693381051c6b68!2m2!1d-85.4141673!2d34.6970502!1m5!1m1!1s0x88604218045862e9:0xefa2321047b41734!2m2!1d-85.2924564!2d34.8703547!3e0

USS Nicholas DD-449: Link to video of sailors receiving mail

This video shows WWII US sailors aboard the USS Nicholas DD-449, receiving mail, after having bartered with natives to obtain it. The site has links at right ~ go to the page at Archive.org and click the "Download" link provided there. Web page with video download: https://archive.org/details/NPC-1849a

Maps (on-line)

Geographicus Rare and Antique maps: the site has some beautiful maps for sale, with digital images and enlargements available on-line. Some of the historic maps are so beautiful!
http://www.geographicus.com/


Old Alabama Railroad Map
http://www.history-map.com/picture/000/Railroad-Alabama-Old-Map.htm

Folk Pop Jim

Folk Pop Jim "Teaching history with recycled doors to our past." James Schroeder Artist, Teacher Contact info: 116 Woodcrest Drive Rome, Georgia 30161 folkpopjim(at)wix (dot com) jachroederart(at)twitter folkpopjim(at)gmail... Merging history and art, getting young people interested in history through art. Paints murals depicting historical and cultural events on recycled doors. He uses the names of people associated with the event as the color and detail, so that when his students saw the paintings, they would see the names and discover history for themselves. Saw at festival in Summerville, Georgia, 2014.

Judd House: Extract from Daily Citizen News (Supplement, 2001)

The Judd House
and garden estate







Originally called Oneonta (Indian for "a resting place")


Historic House in Dalton, Georgia: not open to the public

Location: Walnut Avenue. Built: 1921. Original Owner, assisted in designing the home: Lenna Judd
 

Renovated in ???? by Evelyn Huffaker Myers, of Dalton, Georgia. She bought some original furnishings, dishes, and books that had belonged to Lenna and Morton Ellis Judd from their grandson, Morton Judd. (article, p.2) She and Judd developed a friendship. She became interested in the history of the Judd family. She finally photographs and family documentation. She came to admire Lenna Judd and her taste.

Morton Judd sold most of the family property (except the house and immediate grounds) to Bill Young, a developer. Myers subsequently bought the Judd barn about 1998 from Young and converted the barn to a house. Myers wanted the house, but at first, Judd did not want to sell it. Later, he did decide to sell, and Myers bought the house August 11, 2000 [from article, p.2].

Evelyn Myers
Majorette, then drum majorette in school. Later: "She worked in the local Wink, Crescent and Dalton theaters as an usherette, and was the cover girl for the centennial edition of The Dalton Citizen" (article, p.2).
Before marriage, Evelyn Myers owned a beauty salon.
 
Married in 1945 to Gene Myers; previously, he had served in the Navy. He is now deceased.

The couple owned/operated a "area-rug business," which "has grown into" Myers Carpet (branches in Dalton, Atlanta, and Nashville)


Children: Ray, Rick, and Vicky Myers.

Evelyn Myers allowed the house to be opened to the public briefly as a Designer Showcase house (sponsored by Whitfield-Murray Historical Society) from Oct. 28 to Nov. 11, 2001.

[Article: "Celebrating the legacy of Oneonta" p.3]:
Features: 22 rooms, seven bathrooms.


The grounds include "formal boxwood gardens, spring house, tea house, pond, and 'barn'" (from article, p.3)
 Gardens on the hillsides. Large pond in front yard. Outdoor amphitheater. Rock teahouse. [Restoration of the gardens in 2001 by Ryan Gainey, Atlanta landscape designer.]


Main gate on Walnut Avenue, erected by Manly Steel (Dalton company). The gate has gilt lettering, "Oneonta," at the center.

Interiors: original millwork and architectural elements. (American Craftsman or English Arts and Crafts style). Library. Music room (w/pipe organ, grand piano).

My own memory: oak-paneled library. Rooms staggered, not central hallways. One bathroom had a mini-tub for feet! Rectangular bay windows. Stucco exterior.

Closed and barricaded about 1994.

Evelyn Myers' converted-barn home was featured in Veranda Magazine, November, 1988.

Lenna Judd: husband died 1921. "She was the first woman board member of the Georgia Forestry Association and an early leader in the state's Red Cross and parent-teacher organizations." Known for her gardens, she also landscaped other gardens in Georgia. (from another article, locals remembered seeing her work w/tools in her garden, hands-on gardening). She cooked, sewed, gave to needy (hands-on charity--took food in her roadster to needy families).  Lenna Judd died in 1938.

"...in 1924 she designed the gardens at what was then Yenching University in Beijing."

Myers was inspired by Minnie Pearl's historic home, which she had toured (p.20, continuation of article, "Legacy..." from page 2).

Note: At the time of publication of the supplement, there were plans to feature the restoration of the Judd house on HGTV as part of its Before and After series (telecast date unknown at time of writing).

Reference: Supplement to the Daily Citizen newspaper, Dalton, Georgia, Wed., Oct. 24, 2001: [The Judd House]. (Article): Kelly, Chris A., "Building on the past, facing the future," page 2

URL: Pages on Cotton History, published by a commercial T-Shirt Site

This URL was submitted for S. Muse. The marketer sent a well-thought-out email. The site is commercial, though--T-shirt printers/sellers. Sophisticated marketing technique, there. The page might be worth linking--keep an eye on it.

http://www.ooshirts.com/guides/From-Cotton-to-T-Shirts:-The-Role-of-Cotton-in-the-Civil-War.html

Antebellum Houses

Selected antebellum houses (some for public tours, some private (but occasionally open for special tours), some completely private:

Oakwood, Murray County, Georgia (private, has been on historical-house tour before). Used to have a spring.

Carter's Quarter, Murray County, Georgia (private, has been on historical-house tour from time to time). Has a springhouse with spring, still standing. Has a family cemetery.


Penn Place, Chattooga County, ?tourable?: Antebellum landmark, plantation-style house built in 1840, "after William Penn received many acres as a payment of debt to his father."