#elbert county

4 November 2024: Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia.

i went to visit the guidestones about ten years ago and i can assure you that there was no there there. with their destruction yesterday, no great evil has been released, and no great evil has been destroyed.

also, as a plot point for our current timeline, it feels a little bit too obvious, a little bit on the nose. even the symmetry of their creation and destruction as acts of half-assed vandalism is just bad writing. it's so cheesy.

Asa Chandler House-Elberton, Georgia

Initially built as a plantation plain or I-house in 1849, the Asa Chandler home showcases Folk Victorian additions. Reverend Asa Chandler was a Baptist preacher and small scale farmer in Elbert County. He utilized enslaved labor to cultivate a wide variety of crops on his land. In 1917, the home was purchased by Walter Jones. The home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in…

Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia Designed by Richard Cecchini, the Sheppard monument represents Christ at Gethsemane. It’s listed on the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture database.

Unnamed School, Elbert County

Located in Heardmont, this unnamed school sits next to the Bethel Grove Baptist Church. My assumption is that it is called the Bethel Grove School. I am still looking for info. The church was founded in 1885. This was verified as a school in an oral history project I found online titled, “In Those Days, African American Life near the Savannah River.”