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New Chattooga Heritage outing
December 31st, 2011
Photos by: Bruce J. O’Connor
Lisa Ezzard (in checked shirt), to the site of an old asbestos ore grinding
mill on the West Fork of the Chattooga.
A brave band of ForestWatchers, led by Joe Gatins ForestWatch District Leader, made a brief foray into the well-known heritage areas of the Wild and Scenic Chattooga River Corridor on New Year's Eve, stopping at old asbestos mill site on the West Fork or the Chattooga, a nearby historic gravesite and the location of the old Nicholson Farmstead, birthplace of the first U.S. Forest Service forester in Rabun County, Roscoe Nicholson. The farmstead site once included a school, church and a large, two-story main house, as well as numerous outbuildings. The main house, however, was burned by arson and some of the outbuildings recycled to new uses on private property several years ago.
a "hidey-hole" cut into a steep bank on a recent hike in the
Chattooga River corridor.
ForestWatch Events & Hikes Archive:
- Blood Mountain Hike
- Dragonflies & Damselflies Hike
- 2011 Wild & Woolly Forest Festival
- Walk on the Wild Side of Overflow
- 2010 Annual Retreat
- Moccasin Creek Hike
- Bartram Trail Hike
- Wild & Woolly Native Plant and Book Sale
- White Cliffs Hike
- Upper Chattooga "3fer"
- Take Me to the River: Chattooga Poetry Hikelog
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