The Morgan County Hospital Authority was established by the Morgan County Board of Commissioners in 1957. A new hospital was built in Morgan County, Georgia, after five years without one. Morgan Memorial Hospital opened its doors on New Year’s Day 1960. The 26-bed institution was made possible by federal-local participation under the Hill-Burton Act. The Morgan Memorial Hospital was the first critical access hospital in Georgia to be certified as a Level IV trauma center. Morgan Memorial Hospital’s facilities became obsolete for many medical purposes, and construction on a new building began a ..read more

The Two Pines Funeral Home had been a respected part of a small, rural community for many years before it was abandoned. That changed when the owner was cited for nefarious and shady business practices, forcing the state to intervene and permanently close this establishment. In 2017, the state board was notified regarding prepaid burial expenses from family members of the deceased. These complaints led to an unannounced visit to audit the funeral home. When the board examined the funeral home’s records and bank account, it discovered that they were inconsistent. Instead of allocating funds for ..read more

In the days when downtowns thrived, almost every town had a drugstore with walnut paneling and a marble-top soda fountain where thick milkshakes and orangeades were made. The May & Gorham Drug Store was constructed as a two-story brick commercial building in 1904, and later enlarged in 1906. The building was built by D. J. Rose for Reading D. Bullock and John D. Bullock. Today, D. J. Rose & Son, Inc. is the oldest continuously operating general contracting firm in North Carolina. Richard S. Gorham founded the May & Gorham Drug Store with W. A. May in 1904. Architects, doctors, dent ..read more

Originally, Jefferson County’s seat of justice was at Carrollsville, located on the Huntsville stage road, where Powderly is today. The small crossroads village, also called Carrollton, was known for its blacksmith shop, watermill, and beautiful Lombardy poplar trees. The village was named for early settler Thomas Carroll, who built the county’s first schoolhouse. A few miles from Carrollsville, Congress designated 2,560 acres for use by the Connecticut Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. In 1820, Captain William Ely, an attorney and agent for the asylum, arrived in Jefferson County ..read more

Charlie A. Reid Sr. was born on October 25, 1918, in Augusta, Georgia. At the age of 19, he married Pauline Stapleton in 1937. They separated several years later in 1942. That same year, Reid married Edwina Charles and filed a divorce petition against Stapleton. The divorce was authorized in January 1943. Charlie A. Reid Jr. was born to Edwina Charles and Charlie Reid Sr. on August 7, 1944. In his day, Charlie A. Reid Sr. was an influential figure in Augusta, Georgia. He was a property owner, a businessman, and somewhat of a power broker in the city. He was courted politically and was thought ..read more

For decades this family-owned dental clinic served a rural community. Today, it sits abandoned after the building flooded. Thank you for reading. Please share the blog with your friends. I appreciate your support. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. For more amazing, abandoned locations from across the Southeast, check out my photography books ..read more

The Pendleton-Graves House in Sparta, Georgia was built circa 1815 by Thomas Whaley in the Federal style. It was purchased in 1853 by Dr. Edmund Monroe Pendleton, who added on to it to accommodate his 11 children. Pendleton was a graduate of the South Carolina Medical College and a local physician. He was also an entrepreneur and developed the Pendleton Formula, which made use of animal matter as fertilizer. He was one of the first to use cottonseed in the production of fertilizer, founding a company in 1867. In 1880, the home was sold to entrepreneur and banker Richard Augustus Graves. He add ..read more

The Alonzo Herndon Stadium opened in 1948 on the campus of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. The 15,011-seat stadium is the largest at an institution in the Atlanta University Center and the only one with stands on two sides. The historic venue is named after Alonzo Herndon, a rags-to-riches success story who became Atlanta’s first Black millionaire as founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Born into slavery in 1858, in Walton County, Georgia, Alonzo Franklin Herndon was the son of Sophenie, an enslaved woman, and a White father, likely her master, Frank Herndon, who was from a ..read more

This water treatment complex was built for a single, basic task–to supply a city its water needs. In 1939, federal public works funding and bonds were issued to get the $700,000 needed to build the new plant. Construction began later that year, and the plant was completed in 1940. While strictly utilitarian in concept, the treatment plant, as built, is perhaps the foremost Art Deco style building around, displaying a surprising level of architectural detail. The brick building includes a full basement, and parts of the structure are four stories high. The two-story entrance lobby features a me ..read more

The Southern Funeral Home operated as a family-owned business for over 30 years and was located in the southeast part of Georgia. Founded in the 1980s, the funeral home operated for over 30 years before closing permanently a few years ago. In its final years, online reviews cited worn-out hearses, a lack of professionalism, and incorrect grave digging. Thank you for reading. Please share the blog with your friends. I appreciate the support. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, & TikTok. For more abandoned locations from across Georgia, check out my books Abandoned Georgia: Exploring th ..read more