This middle class plantation was in the Jarrell family for more than 140 years. It was a typical southern plantation covering about 600 acres growing cotton and dealing in slaves. On this day that we visited exhibits of making biscuits and corn bread, wood carving and wool spinning were being done. It was an interesting visit being able to go into the numerous buildings even with walking down a long hill and back up again. We then stopped in the little town of Juliette that had little shops from honey products to antiques.
Sunday (2nd) we drove to Stone Mountain.
We had been to this site many years ago but it had since that time become very commercialized. A train runs around the base of this huge granite stone and a sky tram carries loads of folks to the top and back down.
There are other activities as well. We enjoyed the train ride and sky tram, The previous time we visited here we were younger and climbed to the top (the tram was not here at that time).Stone Mountain has a carved scene depicting Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Today, Labor Day (3rd), we left Forsyth, Ga. and drove north to the Nashville, Tennessee area, 325 miles. We had looked into making campground reservations on Saturday. A KOA campground in Nashville wanted $85.00 a night, we declined. We found a Corps of Engineering park about 12 miles from Nashville for $22.00 for 2 nights which is where we are staying. Beautiful location on a lake and nice spacious campsites and this evening a beautiful sunset.
We are now in Central time zone.
