Thinking about 2024/2025 Projects at HWC
Out where signals...end
Hardwoods Camp Elbert County Georgia Est 2020
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HISTORY
For 13,000 years it was Palioindian land..
In 1732 it became part of the 13th colony..
288 yrs later it became
HWC..
The water has always flown past this place and out to sea...
I feel the History of this American Crossroads
The passing souls good and bad...
Indians ▪︎ Trappers ▪︎ Settlers
Slaves ▪︎ Slavers ▪ Soldiers
Wanderers and Explorers { past and present }.... the thread of humanity going back over 133 centuries has left behind a life and death presence on this place
This Final stopping place has been quietly waiting to have me too
Sanders Ferry River Crossing over the Savannah■
A group of people with horse and buggy are being ferried across the Savannah River to South Carolina, ca. 1910-19, by Sanders's Ferry. J. D. Rucker is fifth from left and Grace C. Rucker is sixth from left. The man seated is operating the ferry
Courtesy of Georgia Archives
You look and wait and look and think, then [it] finds you..
[it].. is a big chunk of Foothills that required a name.....
● HARDWOODS CAMP ●
3766 Anderson Highway
Elberton Georgia 30635
Our paths crossed in 2017 • By 2020 this beautiful • living • waterfront • property... [the size of 28 football fields :] ...was entrusted to me • I will wander back and forth adding and subtracting getting older and slower.. with a happy sense of belonging
I will get done what I can in 24/25 ● My Concept art from 2017
Hopes and Thought's and pictures
My Dead on... Dead end
Solid high ground animated by natures clock and calendar
Hardwoods Camp is a private wooded haunt that sits on a Big Toe Peninsula at the historic boundry between the Creek People to the South and Cherokee Nation to the North ■
36+ Wooded Acres and a year round creek... the property sits above the original Savannah River channel... now resting 35 feet +or- below the surface of Lake Russell ■
Beauty with a hint of Spooky...
Many Lives and Spirits... Dreams and Nightmares have passed over, across and through this State Boundry of land to water to land ■
HWC has 0.42 mile of Corp Shoreline and beach on 41.6 sq miles of open water and is surrounded by 26,500 acres of Preservation Land ■
No Social... No Media... No signal....You might get 1 or 2 bars on a high spot
▪︎ HWC is a stand alone compound...holding the banks and land on both sides of it's creek...
▪︎ the [North] boundry is the last half mile in Georgia of unshared frontage on SR 368 or Anderson Highway ending at the Corp line with 0 neighbors to the main parcel...
▪︎ the [South] boundry has 3 neighbors all kept separate by 2 additional buffer lots the creek itself, and the land on the South side of the creek...
▪︎ the [West] boundry is an unbroken property line stretching N to S from Rt 368 to Utah Drive...
▪︎ the [East] property line is 302.7 ft to the Lake from the Corp Line ... HWC is the only adjacent private property to this 2201 feet of water line...
▪ At night it gets pitch dark ... but if the sky is clear you will observe a Universe that is switched ON... with nearly zero light pollution
▪ Lake Russell is just water and woods... with no shoreline development... A timeless natural contrast to both Hartwell and Clark's Hill Lakes
▪ Russells lake level is constant +or- 5 feet all year round... even when the other lakes are low... this Lake is always kept at or close to full pool... high water is required for the lower dams dual directional pumping system to operate
▪ HWC's land starts as a long hollow on high ground with multiple foothills and ravines on either side of a constant creek... it also has large, level hill top areas... the last hill top looks down and out across the lake
▪ HWC was home to the Western landing of the Sanders Ferry that operated a crossing on the river... Old Woods Rd runs the length of the HWC property... this road was a loop with its last stop at the Savannah Rivers west bank... when the Anderson-Elberton Free Bridge was formally opened on March 17, 1927 the old loop was abandonded... The Bridge was eventually renamed the Sanders Ferry Bridge and in 1940 the new bridge road was paved and became SR 82 in 1970 it was redesignated as SR 368... the old unpaved road on the property has been a fisherman path • lovers lane • and farmers junk dump for the last 97 years...
▪ Fearless swimming... Lake Russell is a USACE Federally designated Nature Lake and has extremely clean water due to the 19,635 acres of undeveloped Corp property and a 300 foot Lake Shore perimeter set back... in addition to the ajoining 17,300 acres of USFS Wildlife Management land
The Beautiful Gulf of Elberton
That's the Georgia / South Carolina State line bobbing in the middle of the channel ...............
"Here... fishy fishy"
Proposed building site for Overlook Hotel