CORRECTION: Since this post was published, we have now found out that this photo is not our house. When we get more information about the original construction of our house, we’ll update.
The picture above is on display at the Newborn City Hall. According to the lady there, this how our house looked when it was first build. Below is the caption on the photo:
“John Williams Pitts House, circa 1839 — This house was located on the corner of S. Johnson Street and Georgia Highway 142. On November 19, 1864 the Fourteenth U.S. Army Corps under command of Major General J.G. Davis and Major General William T. Sherman camped in Newborn. Mr. J.W. Pitts entertains Gen. Davis and Gen. Sherman in this house and is alleged to have convinced Gen. Sherman of his Union sympathies thus preventing Newborn from being burned.”
More on the history to come.
That is so cool! So so so cool!
By: Heather Anne on January 15, 2006
at 8:46 pm