Replies to Comments, Barns, Cumberland Furnace TN, Churches, Guarding the Garden
Sometimes I feel like I
need to reply to comments almost
on a daily basis! This morning, I am
doing something, I have not done in
about a yr., sitting on the back deck,
in the daybed and drinking my coffee.
Why have I not been out here...it's
a mess. I cleaned the deck with the
pressure washer months ago but
never put things in their place and
stuff still stacked on chairs.
WHY?
Well, if you remember I was
busy working in the yard in
the spring. With that, pressure
washing is all I got too.
Then the heat came in,
I was forced inside and the mood
emotional state moved in and I am
just now starting to find .....ME...
me again. SLOWLY.
Anyway, here is a comment from
Ann on my abandoned homes post.
Ann commented on
"Silo, Abandoned, Deer, More Abandoned, Barns, Rocks, Church, and Creek to House You got a lot of great
pictures. It's sad to see abandoned houses and I also
wonder what the story is. That first one looks too new
to be sitting abandoned. That's pretty sad. I bet it's a nice house too.
Ann, I have never been to an area that have so
many abandoned homes. Some really
old and prob got lost in inherited events (my
thoughts) but the newer looking ones I don't understand.
Making the bank took it over but what
I don't understand, is they never look
like that try to sell them. Its more like
they let them sit there. Course, being this is
such a RURAL area, most folks might
not wish to come this far out. I would
love to be able to go in and listen to
the talking walls!!
LOL....and Liz on my travel down
Defeated Creek Rd. (same post that
Ann commented on).
Defeated Creek Road? So, did they defeat th
e creek, or did the creek defeat them?
Good question Liz and although
I tend to check things out, not
sure how that road got its name.
My first question would have been,
who did the defeating? But, replying
to you, not a clue. However, I would
think it has to do with the civil war
battles that took place in this area.
Brains dad, Terry stated,
You sure have lots of interesting places around there!
haha...Terry, its cause I get out and
hunt for them. Plus, I know it sounds
funny but its like moving to
another country, moving from a
populated area like I have always
lived to, this!
Now, moving on, let's talk about
population. I moved from the other
side of Nashville, in Hermitage where
the population sat somewhere
between. 38 and 39 thousand people.
And yes, Hermitage was a bigger area
then how they are broke up in this
area. In the area I live in now,
NUNNELLY, has a population of
get this, 1999 people.
If you mix the other little
communities (3) around me.
still does not come close to 39 thousand
people.
Then I am living among folks that
are more like farmers, well, not
really farmers, cause you don't see
big gardens, hardly any gardens.
But lots of land owners, some have
horses and some have coffees.
They harvest hay but I am pretty sure
the clay like soil around here makes
growing food hard. Let's change that
from farmers to country folk.
I know I have hit upon the fact
that around here, we still have
roads, that buses for school travel
that are not paved. Out here, folks use
big metal barrels for trash. Take your
trash out to the barrel for pick up...
I can't do that, I came from the
area where we used trash cans...
WITH LIDS, to keep critters out.
Where we had an actual company do
our trash pickup, here, you
hire a local yolkel to pick up your
trash.
Local of course means this area
and yokel means
a naive or gullible inhabitant
of a rural area or small town.
How about I share some
middle TN. barns with you.
THIS WAS BIG!
These tall ones like this
I am thinking might have been
built for tabacco. You see once that
mess is cut, it has to hang
from the top of the barn to dry.
Like abandoned homes, I
have to wonder why someone
lets so much space, like a
barn just go to waste. Also, I have
to wonder why both homes and
barns are just left to fall in, instead
of someone tearing them down.
Now, with the barn sites, let me
share where I took these pics.
But first I must start at the
start, that's always best I hear.
A week or so ago I sat down with
my laptop, and pulled up a map
of middle TN. I wanted to see some
of the cities listed around me.
With my list made out, I decided
that I will at some point
venture out, with my camera
and go visit.
That was the start. haha
The other day I had a doc appt.
(the one I missed the week before)
but I grabbed my camera on the way
out the door. Not really sure if I would
come home after the appt or venture out.
VENTURING seemed the best way to go!
Last week when I went out two
days in a row told me that I was
getting better emotionally.
So, I did not fight my choice
of running off and venturing out
yet again, leaving all I need to be
doing at home, waiting on me where
it still waits!
First on my list of cities, I get
to on that side of Dickson where
my appt was, so off I started driving.
CUMBERLAND FURNACE here (known
from here on out as CF), I
came.
haha
Only when I got there I thought
I missed it and went right past it.
I thought we had NOTHING here in
NUNNELLY. Well, CF has nothing on
top of nothing..
Pics to show....
Behind the clutter on the window to
the right, it read, "something, something
grocery store".
Out of business.
Not totally sure what the
building below was at one time,
but you can always bet that when
they are built with that overhang and
windows out front, it was some sort of
business.
It is now used
The community center.
Again, my mind went wandering....
how many of the townsfolk which
register as just under 3000 meet here at
one given time?
There was this cool place
An iron works museum.
Nope, did not go in. Why, well,
it did not appear to be opened and
two, I was at this point wondering
if everyone in town was dead and gone
cause I was not seeing any folks at all.
This building is in the local park
which is right next to the community
center. Yes, no grocery store, but there
is a park.
I will tell you this much, within
a block, and when I say block, basically I
mean right there with in spitting
distance of each other were
four (4) churches.
The first one I came up on was
this one.
I normally make it a point to
get the name of the church and to
see if they have established date.
However, I must be slipping.
There was a house, up to the side
of the church and I loved
the fence separating the
church and house.
Yep, I like that.
Another church I came up on
was up a one lane road on a hill.
Again, no name and est. date.
But you will see a theme here, all
white.
And the last one.
What does the symbols
on the plaque below the cross mean?
Riding around CF I
spotted these two gaurding
a garden.
So Funny.
ABANDONED
The Depot
Such an interesting place.
some reading material on
CF if interested.
it was founded in 1793.
Have a great
day,
Pam
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