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Tuskegee, Alabama
Historic Homes, Places, People
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Wetumpka Impact Crater Project
AU Scientific Core Hole #09-04 "Wadsworth well" Drilled from June 27 to July 10, 2009
Depth - 715 feet - The driller was Boart Longyear of Wytheville, Virginia.
Discovery: This core hole penetrated the collapsed southern rim of the crater and crater-filling sands.
Funded by a NASA grant to Auburn University
Dr. David T. King, Jr. Professor of Geology at Auburn University was the principal investigator of the project.
Dr. Jens Ormo, Centro de Astrobiologia - Madrid, Spain; Dr. Lucille Beardsley, Auburn; and Mr. R. Scott Harris, Georgia State University, Atlanta were Dr. King's colleagues and co-investigators in the study.
Drilling Location: Wadsworth Property
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1- Tuskegee, Alabama - Historic Places
2- Wetumpka Impact Crater Core Drilling
3- Blueberry Festival 2007
4- Connor House - Tuskegee, Al.
5- Thanksgiving Day 2008
6- Forest Home - Built in 1840 (Howard Home) Tuskegee, Al.
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Blueberry Festival 2007
Lake Jordan Garden Club's - annual event: The garden club is a Chapter of the PWHW:
The annual event takes place at the Blueberry Patch located at Wadsworth Christmas Tree Farm.
After a few hours of blueberry picking and a few games of horseshoes the club and their guests are treated to an outside "Blueberry Theme" dinner hosted by the Wadsworth's. After a delicious dinner under the night sky, the group relaxes while doing a little star gazing. While star gazing, different guest will point out their favorite constellations and planets in the heavens above. Sometimes a sighting of the International Space Station or other man made satellites are possible.
Connor House - Tuskegee, Alabama
A Historic home in downtown Tuskegee; neglected over time and overgrown by "Mother Nature". The home was demolished to make room for a parking lot at the new farmers market. The below photographs show the unique craftsmanship used to build the home with its beautiful hardwood floors and large timbers that were used in the sub flooring.
Tuskegee, Al. Post Office
"The Road to Tuskegee" oil on canvas
by Anne Goldthwaite ca. 1937
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Wetumpka Impact Crater
History and Origin Presentation
Prepared by Auburn University
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Thanksgiving Day 2008
A day to give thanks for all of your family: Photos taken of a family in the Elmore County area.
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"Forest Home"
The Howard Home Built In 1840 During Pioneer Days - Tuskegee, Al.
To visit "Forest Home" is to begin a fascinating journey back to the days of early Alabama statehood. One even catches a glimpse of Alabama when it was an untracked territory populated by tribes of the Creek Indian Nation.
Major James Howard, born in 1776, son of Nehemiah Howard, moved to Alabama from Elbert County, Georgia. In 1830 he purchased a 1000 acre tract of land from the Creek Indians. He subsequently bought land surrounding that tract to eventually own 10,000 acres. Major James Howard married Tabitha Motley. One of their sons, Dr. Robert Henry Howard, was deeded 1000 acres of land surrounding the present house site. Dr. R. H. Howard first married Rebecca Hurt. They lived in a log house close to the "old well" located approximately one 1 / 2 mile south of the present house. Forest Home was built in 1840 for Dr. Howard's second wife, Cornelia Rebecca Lamar.
The original house consisted of a 12 foot wide central hall, two rooms on each side of the hall with solid brick fireplaces in each room and a 48 foot long front porch. The house was constructed of pine. The floors are of broad hard pine.The sills (supporting beams) were hand hewn from trees growing on the property. The sill for the front porch measured 12 inches by 18 inches by 48 feet - hewn from a single tree. Solid brick columns supported the sills. All bricks were made by the slaves living on the property. Slave houses (later to become tenant houses) were located behind the home on both sides of the present lane leading up to the home.
The original Howard home, probably the oldest in Macon County, now stands on 186 acres of land. Fronting on historic Old Federal Road, now erased by time, the Howard home is unusual not only for its age and durability, but because it is one of the rare Alabama Homes in which the direct line of a family has lived continuously for five generations. It is also noteworthy that the occupants have had the original family name.
The Old Federal Road ran from Columbus, GA. to Mims Ferry, and on to Natchez, Mississippi. In Macon County the Old Federal Road crossed Little Charlie Creek, ran in front of "Forest Home" turned west and ran thence across Calebee Creek. There were stories told to me by my Grandparents, Crawford Motley Howard and Mary Winifred (Winna) Barkley Howard, about Confederate soldiers stopping from their travels on the Old Federal Road to set up camp in the fields that surrounded "Forest Home".
"Mother Howard" of whom Winna Howard (my Grandmother) speaks frequently and affectionately was the former Erin Hardin (my Great Grandmother) of Auburn and was courted by and married Dr. Crawford Howard (my Great Grandfather) in 1879. An excerpt from one of his letters to his fiancee reflects something of the mode of transportation and pace of the day.
"Dear Miss Erin: We arrived safely yesterday afternoon at 3:20 p.m., making the trip of 25 miles (from Auburn) in four hours and fifty minutes. A quick drive for a small horse and sloppy roads. The creeks were all fordable and the weather much pleasanter than the day we landed in Auburn......" In those days, the only route to Auburn was by way of Notasulga and Loachapoka. The return address on the letter is "Forest Home". "That's the name this house has always been called", my Grandmother Howard (Nana) once told me.
The property and home is still in the family but the harsh elements of Mother Nature has now put the home back to the "Forest" . Only the shell of the home can still be found; but the memories will live forever.
"Forest Home"
Photo taken on 7-9-1967
My Grandmother was still living on the property at this time. Her picture shown below. My Grandmother, "Nana" built the above brick walkway by herself. Occasionally, when I was a child, I would help my Grandmother haul bricks to the front lawn. For many years, she hauled the bricks by wheel barrow from the old slave quarters located on the property. The walkway makes a L turn (not shown) to connect to a side dirt road. This road was part of the Old Federal Road which ran though this part of our country.
In the above photo - Riding the center horse is my Great Grandfather, Dr. Crawford Motley Howard and my Granddaddy, Crawford Motley Howard.
Mary Winnifred Barkley Howard
Crawford Motley Howard married my Grandmother, Mary Winnifred Barkley on August 17, 1917
