Antebellum plantation smoke house, Georgia, slavery, historic preservation, octagon building

Plantation smoke house on the former A.J. Lane plantation, called "Granite Hill," Sparta, GA. Circa 1850s. Stonemason Brent Kickbush of Bishop, GA, narrates.

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[jude999]

Octagon structures were a brief fad in the 1850s. We were hoping to find Confederate gold behind the brick cavity on the upper wall, all we found was a ton of bees and their honey. In 1862, 83 slaves lived on this 1100 acre plantation.

[jude999]

Secretary of State of the Confederacy, Robert Toombs, sought refuge here at the end of the Civil War. A glorious Greek Revival house (I have pictures) built at the same time as this provision house stood alongside it. The house was moved to Macon in 1968 by the great grandson of A.J. Lane. It burned down immediatley thereafter and was reconstructed.

[jude999]

The building was basically destroyed. Brent has told me that portions of the building were salvaged for an entry way for the mining company that will mine the area.

[alaskawill]

So Brent, you must have had a heavy heart when the rocks came tumbling down, no?

Hope you'll find something smaller and possible, to move one of these days.

Thanks for the video.

[crymany]

What happend to this structure? Brent, did you have time to deconstruct it?