Northern Georgia, Oconaluftee Visitor Center and Mountain Farm Museum, Rain Gutter
A few years ago, my sister and brother-in-law moved into their retirement dream home which they built in Union County, GA just outside Blairsville. It is a small community with only 652 residents (as of the 2010 census) in town — Union County itself only has 21,566 residents or maybe two more now. When you start looking at the detail of construction you start to appreciate how self-sufficient these folks were (and had to be). Note the gutter carved out of a straight log to channel the water off the roof and to the ground. They may have, at one time, had a barrel to catch the rainwater to make it through otherwise dry spells. Also, I noted that the supports were not some Home Depot metal brackets but just a fork from a tree.
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Location: Northern Georgia, USA
Photo credit: © B. David Cathell / Alamy / Afripics
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