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<\/a>\r\n1917 and 2023 maps compared<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nOn this 1917 soil map of Lowndes County, Hambrick Road runs east from Hagan Bridge to Cat Creek Road, as it still does today.\r\nIn the center of the map, running south from Hambrick Road, is an old road that I keep open in my woods.\r\nThe other day we used a bit of it for a firebreak in a prescribed burn.\r\n
\r\n\r\n \r\nThe house marked just north across Hambrick Road from that old road\r\nis still there.\r\nThat was probably Fisher Gaskins’ house.\r\nI will ask his descendants.\r\n \r\nThat old woods road is between two creeks that are still there:\r\nRedeye Creek to its west, and Toms Branch to its right.\r\nThey both end up in the Withlacoochee River floodplain.\r\n \r\nToms Branch is just east of the east part of Quarterman Road.\r\nMost of the rest of that road was already there in some form or other,\r\nalthough the south part of it, that currently runs straight east and west,\r\ndid not run like that.\r\n \r\nAnd notice all the other roads that are no longer open to the public.\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nI remember when my father’s driveway continued west between our ponds\r\nacross Redeye Creek to the west side of Quarterman Road.\r\nAnd it continued east across Quarterman Road into the woods.\r\nApparently back in 1917 it continued on to Cat Creek Road.\r\n \r\nJust east of where the north-south woods road joins that old east-west road,\r\nthe house marked there is still there; some neighbors and I just fixed a roof problem it had.\r\nThat’s the house may grandfather and his family lived in when they bought our farm in 1921.\r\n \r\nThe two houses shown just east of Quarterman Road were sharecropper houses.\r\nThe northern one is on my property.\r\nMy father told a story about how he went to visit the family living there.\r\nLater the wife of that house told him my father had saved here, because her husband was about to do her in when he arrived.\r\n“He had me by the neck,” she said.\r\nThere’s nothing left of it now except the well.\r\n \r\nOn the east part of Quarterman Road, farther south, about where the natural gas pipeline goes through the woods and cattle field,\r\nanother road went from Quarterman Road to Cat Creek Road,\r\nand yet another one starting down about at the current southeast corner of Quarterman Road.\r\n \r\nOn the west part of Quarterman Road, the house shown just west of where\r\nthe east-west cross-creek road joins Quarterman Road is the old Bradford house.\r\nThat family moved away long ago, although some of them are occasionally seen at funerals.\r\nOnly the well survives.\r\n \r\nWest of my grandfather’s house and a bit north on Quarterman Road was also a sharecropper house.\r\nMy father used it to store hay for his cows.\r\nIt burned down sometime in the 1980s.\r\nOnly its well and a few scraps of roofing are still there.\r\nI reused its brick foundations for something else.\r\n \r\nA bit farther north, the building shown on the northeast side of Quarterman Road\r\nwas a pack house, used by my family for a long time, first for animals\r\nand later for storing hay.\r\nOnly some roofing survives.\r\n \r\nThe house just before Quarterman Road turns north was and is owned by a Davis family.\r\n \r\nWe can try to match the 1917 map up with the current 2023 Lowndes County Tax Assessors maps.\r\nThis one has Abigail Barzallo’s place highlighted as a landmark.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nIt’s a little difficult to match up 2023 and 2017, because Tom’s Branch has moved over the years, as has the Withlacoochee River.\r\nPlus back in 1917, they had not really mapped the swampy areas of waterways very well.\r\n \r\nYou can not really see the old north-south woods road, because it is under trees.\r\nMany of those old roads were probably like that: single-track dirt roads in the woods, just wide enough for a wagon, with no ditches.\r\n \r\nBut you can see a few things, such as at the southeast corner of Quarterman Road,\r\nthe east-west boundary between two parts of Stalvey Farms West LLC\r\nmore or less matches one of the old roads to Cat Creek.\r\n \r\nIf we zoom out a little bit, other things are still there, such as Franklinville Road and Tyler Bridge across the Withlacoochee River.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThe community of Catcreek was apparently bustling back then, with many houses.\r\nNew Bethel Church was already north of Beatty Branch.\r\n \r\nHere’s the same area in the 2023 Lowndes County Tax Assessors Map.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nOnly a few years earlier than 1917, in 1910, we do not see nearly as much detail.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nBut Hahira-Cat Creek Road runs more or less where \r\nKings Chapel Church and School is marked at the county line, just west of Cat Creek Road.\r\nThe old school building still exists, on the property of David Fields.\r\nThe church is still there; I don’t know if it is the original building.\r\n \r\nThere’s a D.A. Sapp a bit south of Hambrick Road on Cat Creek Road, and a Sapp & Stubbs Still across that road.\r\nI wonder who he was?\r\n \r\nMore south of Hambrick Road, J.A. Smith is marked, with a house.\r\nThat appears to be the same old house that is now on my property.\r\nHe was the owner of much of the land hereabouts.\r\nNote to the west J.A. Smith & Co.\r\n \r\nThe creek in the middle that starts at Hambrick Road and goes down to the Withlacoochee River near Franklinville is Redeye Creek.\r\nToms Branch is not shown.\r\nThe road from Franklinville to Cat Creek Road is Franklinville Road.\r\n \r\nGoing back farther, to 1867, this map shows little but rivers, creeks, and land lots.\r\nThe area we’ve been focusing on is in land lots 91 and 92.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThere are older maps, but they have even less detail about this area.\r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some old roads from a century ago are still in the woods in north central Lowndes County. 1917 and 2023 maps compared On this 1917 soil map of Lowndes County, Hambrick Road runs east from Hagan Bridge to Cat Creek Road, as it still does today. 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\r\n\r\nSoil Map, Georgia, Lowndes County Sheet<\/a>, Record ID cmf0373, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1917, in\r\nCounty Maps, Surveyor General, RG 3-9-66, Georgia Archives<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[2023-12-25--cat-creek-road-loco-tax-assessors]\"](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map\/2023-12-25--cat-creek-road-loco-tax-assessors.jpg\")
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\r\nLowndes County Tax Assessors Map<\/a>, 2023-12-25.\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[1917--cat-creek-road-loco-soil-map]\"](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map\/1917--cat-creek-road-loco-soil-map.jpg\")
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1917–cat-creek-road-loco-soil-map<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[2023-12-25--hambrick-road-loco-tax-assessors]\"](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map\/2023-12-25--hambrick-road-loco-tax-assessors.jpg\")
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2023-12-25–hambrick-road-loco-tax-assessors<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n![\"[1910--lowndes-county-ga-map]\"](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map\/1910--lowndes-county-ga-map.jpg\")
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1910–lowndes-county-ga-map<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\nGA 133<\/del> GA 122 crosses the river at Hagan Bridge, then follows Hambrick Road.\r\nNorth of it Fisher Gaskins lived.\r\nHis descendants own much of his former land.\r\n![\"[1867--lowndes-county-ga-map]\"](\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/1917--lowndes-co-ga-soil-map\/1867--lowndes-county-ga-map.jpg\")
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1867–lowndes-county-ga-map<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n