Blount and Beyond Online Magazine - Magazine - Page 129
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The Abandoned Farm House By the Late Allan Hannah
As a kid I spent lots of time exploring around the area of the creek and places that were dear to me. One of my
favorite places was Joe Farmer's abandoned farmhouse. It was behind Clyde Anthony's place on a hilltop near
the creek. Believe it or not, there were carved oak beds still in the bedroom and one of them had a trundle bed
under it. I used to wonder what kind of people they might have been and stuff like that. My favorite thing to do
was go up into the attic and prowl through all the bottles up there.
The place was filled with bottles of every kind. I don't think they ever threw one away. The bottles were
antique even then. None of them had screw tops, they were all made for cork stoppers and some of them
looked hand blown. They would probably be valuable today. It never occurred to me to take any of them
because they weren't mine.
One day while prowling up there I found a horn from a bighorn sheep lying in a dark corner. I took it home
with me as a keepsake and I always wondered how it got all the way from the Rocky Mountain West to a
place like Cold Springs and end up in Joe Farmer's attic. Not long after that the place was burned to the
ground by a couple of local boys for no reason. They also burned Crawford Oliver's place and the Dorcey
place down in the Porter field.
Memories - By the Late Mable Compton Whitehead
Mable Aileen Compton Whitehead was born at home. The family home was located on what is now known
as Old Cold Springs School Road. Her dad had built the family a three-bedroom home just three months
before Mable was born. He finished the house years later. Mable9s parents were Wiley and Rose Compton.
Mable Compton Whitehead shared the following story about Korean War: