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File Identification:Outlaw-555 | Date Scanned:2016-09-01 | Source of Scanned Image:William H. Outlaw Jr. | |
| Original Source of Image:Christine W. Outlaw | Digital Archiver:William H. Outlaw Jr. | Image Restorer: | ||
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| Estimated Date of Original Image:August, 1941 | Basis for Date Estimate:date by printer, and Della Faye looks about 2.5 you (she was born Jan 31, 1939) | Unreduced File Size(px): | ||
| Location:W.H. Outlaw Farm | Background:land and out buildings | Activity:pose | ||
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| Information with Photo:Lollar's Birmingham Aug 29 1941 |
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| Subjects:Della Faye Outlaw | ||||
| Comments:Then, and now (lower image taken abt 2016-09-01) A. Taller trees in this area result from the planting of pines in what had been a Bahai pasture by Sam and Larry Watson in about 1985. The gap in the trees is an artifact of the overhead power lines that were removed in 2009. B. Approx site of a tobacco barn (it was a little to the west of where the trees start now). In my youth, the barn was nearly "settled," being only several feet tall. The bricks that had been used for the furnace were piled together (I don't know what happened to them). There was also a pile of tar cups (and where they wound up is also unknown to me). On the western side of the barn was a path. It is my belief that this path was the main road in former times, in part based on the angle of the old house that Lerene nee Fountain and others lived in, as discussed elsewhere on Southern Matters. (That house was located on the east side of the Mark Watson Road and just north of the intermittent flow from Beaver Dam.) This barn was where Sam lost a prized Yorkshire sow (broke the sow's back when it fell). A rattlesnake also bite a hog in that area, but I don't remember more. Some notes re the sow on SM. To the south of that tobacco barn, Daddy and Uncle Buren hand-dug a pit for watering hogs. In my youth, it had mostly filled in and was a depression only. I don't know why they did not go to a lower spot to begin with. Before this image, I had no knowledge of the second building to the left (south). Larry Watson remembered remains of a building there. It appears to be a tobacco barn; its location at some distance from the main dwellings--because of a fire hazard--is consistent. The location of two tobacco barns lined up as they were is consistent with the path referenced as a road (barns were often but not always on a road). C. This open area was created by the construction of a small pond from the red-bay swamp by Mama and Daddy in the late 1960s. D. Our present house is located a few feet south and a few feet east of the house that Mama and Daddy started their marriage in. We took down that house in 2009 to build our present one. The house we took down was a replacement for the "original" farm house, which burned. The so-called original house was in the same location as the replacement house (and when I deconstructed the smoke house, logs on the west side were charred). Looking at the land, I have long noticed a rise and speculated that the first house had been built on it (i.e. the rise resulted from protection from erosion). The older photograph shows the rise more prominently and strengthens my belief. Notice also that the road dips lower in the old photograph; when the pond was built, the road was built up some, and I did more when I renovated the pond in 2010. I can't explain why the ground in the background at the end of the lane appears light, as if in cultivation? In my youth, it was a silvicultural pasture except for an area cleared for tobacco beds. All that land is presently in cultivation. The apparently tall fence posts were for mules? So much of the past is gone. On what is now the W.H. Outlaw Farm, there were at least four tobacco barns. None now. A house on the corner of the 192/193 lot line and the east of Mark Watson Road, with a well shed and at least one barn (generally of the shape of a traditional "cow barn"). Gone. At the Sutton homestead, a smoke house an three outbuildings (general purpose, pack house, and an animal barn with enclosed storage area. All gone. At the Watson settlement, a goat house, cow barn, a mule barn, two all-purpose storage buildings, a carriage house. All gone. On the way from the Sutton Settlement to the creek, a structure, likely a cowpens. Gone. The house mentioned above where the Fenders, Richardsons, and others lived. Gone. Three (?) makeshift houses on the east side of the Mark Watson Road between our lane and Beaver Dam. Built for loggers (All I remember is depressions from where wells had been.) Gone. As an aside, I don't deny climate change, I know smoking kills, and genetics is real. Suppl A is a composite of Della Faye and me. Peas in a pod. Last edit 2016-09-06. Note: As mentioned in the banner, this area of Southern Matters is private; if you are not a family member, friend, or invited guest, please enjoy the public areas of Southern Matters or exit. Thank you for following our Honor System. This file may contain copyrighted material; the authority to grant permission for its use does not rest with us. Otherwise--for our original material--the following citation format is suggested: "Southern Matters, accessed yyyy/mm/dd." |
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