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Alabama’s Coon Dog Cemetery

Located in rural northwest Alabama is the world’s only coon dog cemetery. Founded in 1937 on Labor Day, the cemetery began when Key Underwood buried his beloved coon dog, Troop. Officially, the cemetery’s name is the “Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard.” The hand-chiseled gravestone of Troop, the first burial Coon dogs are a type of scenthound used to hunt raccoons, feral pigs, and other…

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The Grave Houses of Alabama’s Peck Cemetery

Located near Falkville, Alabama, there are two grave houses located in a large pasture. The houses are part of a small family cemetery. The grave houses belong to Elizabeth Ann Wiggins Brown (1938-1889) and her husband, John Jemisom Brown (1927-1890). According to FindAGrave, there are six burials in the cemetery. An unlocked gate is at the entrance. I chose not to enter and shoot from the…

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Billy Tripp’s Mindfield-Brownsville, Tennessee

At first glance, this multi-story art installation looks like an electrical substation, but it’s the creation of Billy Tripp. The work began in 1989 after a local auto parts store burned down, and he had an idea on how to use the leftover beams. In an article on the Haywood County Tennessee website, Tripp shares, ‘As I got started, I developed different themes; firstly, an outdoor church, I’m…

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The Church That Would Not Die in Siloam, Georgia

Located just off downtown Siloam in Greene County, Georgia, is the St. Paul AME Church. This church was in horrible shape, and it’s clear there has been work to stabilize the structure. At one point, a sign said, “The Church that Would Not Die” above the door. It’s been gone for a few years, but those words are coming true. There isn’t much known about the church. The building is early 1900s. I…

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John McConnell House-Franklin County, Georgia

The John F. McConnell House was built in 1906. According to the National Register of Historic Places, this Georgian plan house has three cut stone chimneys and six fireplaces. A local brick mason, William O. Brown, built the fireplaces, who apparently would mark the year and the number to indicate how many chimneys he had built. He marked one chimney with 1906 #255. His chimneys can be found…

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The Former Ebenezer Methodist Church in Ashland, Georgia

The Hebron Lodge occupies what was once the Ebenezer Methodist Church in Ashland, Georgia. The congregation of Ebenezer was founded in the 1820s. Their first church was on the same plot of land. In 1882 a new church was built by the congregation. It is the one that stands today. The congregation dissolved in the 1960s. At some point the Hebron Lodge #564 took over the space and now use it as a…

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The Historic Hebron Presbyterian Church, Cemetery, and Academy of Banks County, Georgia

Founded in 1796, the Hebron Presbyterian Church congregation in Banks County is one of the earliest congregations in north Georgia. The church was built in 1883 and is representative of many rural churches found in the South with the double doors at the entrance, which were used separately by men and women when the sexes did not sit next to each other during church services. The Hebron Academy…

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The Grave of Sideways, the Dog-Atlanta, Georgia

Located on the west side of Tech Tower at Georgia Tech is the grave of a beloved terrier known as Sideways. Sideways fell from a car window at the Varsity when she was an 8-week-old puppy. She was taken in by Annie Schofield, a boarding house owner, whose home was at 109 North Ave 32 NW. She was known as a dog lover and would eventually nurse Sideways back to health. Her home was between the…

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Collinsville Presbyterian Church-Collinsville, Alabama

The congregation of Collinsville Presbyterian Church began in 1904. Soon after they were organized, they purchased a building that was 2/3rds a Methodist church and 1/3 of the building belonging to the Van Buren Lodge No. 355 F. & A. M. The Gothic Revival Church was built in the 1890s and was relocated to its current site in Collinsville in 1908. The church is still active.

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Visiting the Battle of Druid Hill-Decatur, Georgia

Over Easter weekend, a friend and I met for breakfast and decided to roam around a bit. We both wanted to visit the house where the front yard was filled with sculptural works. Druid Hill is an earthwork site identified and named by welder-turned-sculptor Clark Ashton. According to Ashton’s website, Druid Hill is the historic memorial site of The Battle of Druid Hill, the location of the…

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Mosley and Jesus Mission of Love Holiness Church Cemeteries-Macon, Georgia

If you’ve traveled Pio Nono Road in Macon, you likely have noticed the entrance consisting of three arches leading into a cemetery. At first glance, one would assume it serves as the entrance for one cemetery, but there are two: Mosley Cemetery and Jesus Mission of Love Holiness Church Cemetery. There is a third cemetery, but it is on the other side of the church. The view from the top of the…

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Villa Albicini-Macon, Georgia

Villa Albicini was designed by Neel Reid and built for local florist Daniel Horgan. The Beaux Arts/ Italian Baroque revival home was completed in 1927 by Phillip Trammel Schutze after the death of Reid in 1926. The home is also known as the Horgan-McCook-Curtis place. The home was built with only two bedrooms but a third was added later. The home gives an air of being abandoned, especially with…

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Sardis Presbyterian Church and Cemetery-Coosa, Georgia

Sardis Presbyterian Church congregation began in 1836. The cemetery was established at the same time. The earliest known burial is Rev. James Hervey McArver, who died in 1841. Built in 1855, the church was where the Sardis Brigade of the 6th Georgia Calvary was organized here on May 9th, 1861. The church remained open until 1979. It is still opened on special occasions. It was placed on the…

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Unidentified Church-Cherokee County, Alabama

This church sits in Alabama near the Georgia border. Tax records did not provide any information on the identity of the church.

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Cosmic Christ Mosaic-Huntsville, Alabama

The First Baptist Church of Huntsville is home to a fantastic mosaic officially titled “Cosmic Christ.” Still, it is colloquially known as “Eggbeater Jesus” because the bottom part of Jesus’s body resembles a whisk. The mosaic was inspired by Huntsville being the home of NASA’s Marshall Space Center and the United States Space and Rocket Center, and by a Bible passage that referred to a ‘cosmic…

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Jones Chapel and Cemetery-Washington County, Georgia

Located on a dirt road, the Jones Chapel and cemetery sit across the road from each other. At the moment, I am unable to locate any history on the church. The building was built around 1900. The cemetery is somewhat active with a few fairly recent burials. I will update once I know more. Mr. Newman Jackson, 1910-1995 Two headstones featured these pinpricks as ways to engrave the headstones. T.…

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Powell Harbor Lighthouse-Guntersville, Alabama

Lake Guntersville is an artificial lake created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal to help stimulate the economy after The Great Depression. The decommissioned lighthouse sits on Powell Harbor. It’s also the lesser-known lighthouse. A much larger lighthouse was built into the side of a home as a labor of love. Photos and the history…