I am staying at Thornhill Plantation this week and not only was I ready to explore yesterday, but I had the triumphant return of my camera to celebrate as well.
A brief history: Thornhill was built by John Hardie in 1835 and named for his ancestral home in Scotland. Hardie and his wife, Mary are buried in the family cemetery that is about 100 yards away from the main house (along with other family members and descendants). The family had about 50 slaves but were apparently opposed to slavery (we're staying in the renovated slave cabin). The main house looks like this...
 |
| No biggie. |
Our cabin looks like this (although it is actually two slave cabins that have been combined and we won't go into one part of it because it is most definitely haunted...).
 |
| So rustic. |
We did some exploring but there definitely has to be more to see considering that they have over 300 acres of land. We did visit the chapel that they have on the grounds (built in 1993, for the record) and signed the guest book, where we found a mini-record of all of the other TADs who've been in Talladega over the years -- including more than one of our friends and bosses!
No comments:
Post a Comment