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Raven Oaks Raptor Sanctuary |
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 Debbie Baca
Director: Raven Oaks Raven Sanctuary
Raven Oaks Website
In the fall of 2004, when Hurricane Jean blew through central Florida it forced us to evacuate our home and raptor sanctuary for the sixth time that season. Two floods followed the storm and we decided it would be best to relocate somewhere north; preferably somewhere high and dry. After a little searching we chose Bulloch County Georgia because of its inland location, and its beauty. |
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Jacksonboro Georgia |
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 Just about five miles north of Sylvania in Screven County, Georgia is Jacksonboro. You can travel past it now on highway 301 and never even know it, but once it thrived and was even the seat of Screven County.
Jacksonboro was established as the county seat in 1797, and was officially incorporated as “The Town of Jacksonborough” February 16, 1799. It was named for then governor General James Jackson and thrived as the main business center for Screven County for 50 years. If you ask exactly why the county seat was moved from Jacksonboro you may hear many explanations, but if you ask anyone from Screven County you’ll get only one story, and it begins with Lorenzo Dow. |
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Hanging Rocks |
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 This is from the personal experience of Norman Thomas Clark as told by him in 1999, just two years before his death.
The “hanging rocks” of Jenkins County, owned by Mabel Clarke Jenkins is in the Eastern part of Jenkins County, Georgia, just off Highway 23. They are located on Rocky Branch. A ledge of rock along a hillside that rises some 20 to 25 feet above the earth [which] makes a picturesque scene overlooking a beautiful pond. Underneath the rock is clay that has eroded over a period of time, leaving the rock extended into space. There are huge rocks that have broken off from the main body over the years and in wet times have moved\ down the hill. |
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Roundhouse |
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 Trey Dixon
Trains are as much a part of the South’s romance as anything else we possess, and have been used in our music and literature to personify all the things we feel and long for. Johnny Cash heard a train whistle from inside the Folsom Prison walls that embodied the freedom his prison wouldn’t allow. Ronnie Van Zandt begged a train to carry him away from the heartache of losing Tuesday. Blind Willie rode the Big Eighty from Savannah to cure his Statesboro Blues. |
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Hunting Treasures
Southern Treasures focuses on places of historical significance in the South, specifically our readership area. If you know of a place that would make a good point of focus, please contact us and let us know. It doesn't need to be a well known landmark, but any place that has a story behind it, even if hardly anyone knows about it yet.
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