I frequently drive by this spot and it nearly always catches my eye: the tall shrubs, the open entryway, and the pillars marking a seemingly stately home. And yet it stops at that. It is set back from the road on a narrow, grassy drive and the whole entrance is blocked by a very modest split rail and wire fence.
There are houses beyond, though this entry doesn’t seem to relate to them. It’s just puzzling. Is it a forgotten dream?
yes, that is interesting!
perhaps the house has been torn down? or indeed never was built… ?
or is there a cemetery behind? did you go beyond the fence?
Yes Kay, I drive by often also……wish we had our answer to this one. Maybe we could find an all-knowing local history buff? My guess it the house is long torn down.
I got close enough to the pillars to see that they’re fresh and don’t seem time worn.
CaT, there’s no cemetery beyond. There are a couple of newish houses, but they’re accessed by a different road.
Your forgotten dream seems most likely then! Perhaps they had big plans which went kaput? Perhaps they ended up selling off the land upon which they’d planned to build? Most folks would have added the pillars AFTER building but maybe they did the opposite. It’s sort of fun having a few mysteries around. Kay sometime check out the TREE TUNNEL on Fasola Rd. THAT one is really spooky.
I’d like the plain old split-rail better of the two, to mark my entranceway.
I wonder what’s the story behingd this.
Patricia, I pass Fasola Road all the time but haven’t checked it out. Now I must. . .
At the base of each pillar is a dog sitting with a basket in its mouth and above is, I think, a lion medallion. It’s quite a contrast to the split rail fence.
Looks like an impressive old property and the entrance was salvaged. That’s what I’d like to think, anyway.
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