Thinking about 2024/2025 Projects at HWC
The water has always flowed here out towards the 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)... this thread of humanity has left its presence in life and death on this place
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 big enough to be given a name... HWC
Our paths crossed and I was blessed with this place... a beautiful • living • waterfront • property... the size of 28 football fields :] ... I will wander off and get old...'er and broken...'er... These Woods are a place to be Loved and shared
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 wooded haunt that sits on a Big Toe Peninsula at the historic boundry between the Creek Indians to the South and Cherokee Tribe 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■
Many Lives and Souls... Dreams and Nightmares have passed at this slightly spooky boundry between land and water and land■
HWC has 0.42 miles 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 has 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...
and the [East] property line is the Lake/Corp... 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 West landing of the Sanders Ferry that operated a crossing on the river... Old Woods Rd still runs the length of the property... the road was a loop with its last stop at the Savannah Rivers west bank... the road was realigned for the Sanders Ferry Bridge that was built in 1927 and the old unpaved section was closed
▪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 sites