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Totally. You just asked a great question. I've always wondered if there were some graves that we don't see but I think that's not the case. A couple of months ago when I was at the farm I took about a 2-hour wander through the Fellowship Baptist cemetery where a lot of our family is buried...

In the old 1908 maps, in Land Lot 48 where it says "Fish Pond"...that is our pond when it was a Gin Pond. I found 1902 land deeds that reference the "Gin Pond", the first true reference to it I had found so far.

I agree. I had hoped to find some from before the ponds were built but haven't yet.

I am keeping the timbers in the water at the mill race for now...along with two old sinker logs. Picts of Mr. Bostick's grave...it is the only known grave on the farm. It is on the highest hill and overlooks the ponds and mill site. First timber: Extracting a timber:

Here is some history. Periodically, the Georgia Safe Dams folks contact us to get permission to check the dams at our farm. They interact with the Federal agency that monitors 92,000 dams in the USA that could potentially cause harm if they failed. Their surveyors take measurements and...

And glad to see YOU here, Capt. Jim.

Kinda sorta...I am still doing my main x-ray business....I take the office files with me when I go to the farm. Run the business from there. I have one really good customer that I work with. When they get tired of me I will retire.

I just looked back over this thread and have a LOT to add. Teasers...I discovered there was an old cotton gin/mill on our farm...no one in the family ever heard of that. I have some documents I'll dredge up...dam survey cards that reference a "pre-Civil War dam" (now our "middle dam") and a...

Good question on permits. The answer is, no. We did it old school; think it out, be cautious, and do it. We did study the stream maps and drive to the next downstream bridge to be sure the passage was adequate. Everything downstream looked good as far as we could tell.

It will definitely get stuff done. It's still amazes me.

After the breach there wasn't much to do; so Alex put on the mulcher and finished the road dam mulching. While he did that, I went way to the back of the pond to check the beaver dam we cut a few months ago with the excavator. Rebuilt, of course. Once the pond gets down a lot we will cut that...

Dam cutting...removing a plug:

And to the pond. We tried out our new 48" grading/ditching bucket today. I ordered it in July...we just finally got it last week! Supply chain. It will move some mud for sure. I have some videos that I will eventually post:

We checked the vault of records at the Lowndes County Courthouse and no record yet of the Hahira Trading Company...we found the Hahira Pool Hall about 1910, however. Not Grandaddy's..he was only 11 then. We are at the farm this week. I came down yesterday with Landon and my niece, Josie, who...

I have been doing some research about the farm to better understand how it came to be...as Grandaddy wheeled and dealed in the 1920's thru his death in 1988 it ultimately grew to about 500 acres. My cousin said he has a map for me from 1989 that shows the farm at its height. I have found maps...

And just some general pictures.

Dissuadement, I hope.

Also fighting squirrels down here lately. I finally ventured up into the attic at the old log cabin and found where they had been chewing through wires. I got to lay in the heat up there yesterday and work on the wiring... Lots of fun. Working on trying to plug the holes and dissuade them from...

This is what the gator crossing looks like before I raked it out. You have to zoom in to see the unadulterated gator marks.

I posted some other pictures on the "how did it go today" thread about jacking up the cabin and breaking some beaver dams at the farm. These pictures show you what a gator crossing looks like. We've got the main dirt road between the ponds and at least one gator likes to go back and forth in the...