A Moment for Reflection

A phone call from a friend on Friday prompted us to get out Saturday to visit the site of this old church-building being dismantled on the Wideman Road just outside of Oxford. We asked a couple of folks we met while in the area what building this was but neither was quite sure. The only thing we were told was that it may have been a church.
If you know this old building, let us know what it is...whether a church, school, or both!
Each time we see one of these majestic old structures falling down from fatigue or as in this case...being dismantled...it leaves us somewhat melancholy.

UPDATE!!

A helpful reader has informed us that this was indeed a church-building! It was the home of Pleasant Ridge Church.

Old Hammett House at Wideman (Gin-Owners)

I received an e-mail since posting this entry from Mrs. Betty McCollum after I had asked her about the building in Wideman. Following is the info she shared:

" I did a little checking on the "Hotel" at Wideman. I called Miss Mildred Kankey, who will soon be 90. (Her story is in one of the DML books.) Her mother also lived to be in her 90's, and this is what her mother told her:
"There used to be a big two story building in Wideman that was built by the Hammett family. They (Hammet's) owned the cotton gin. People called that the Hotel cause they fed so many people, but it was because so many people came there with their cotton, and they just fed these people. But, Mildred said her mother said, "It was never a hotel."
Hope this will answer your question sufficiently."
Betty

Wideman; Harber House and Flat Rock Hollow

The Harber House stands on State Highway 56 near the Wideman Road. Flat Rock Church and Hollow are both nearby. The house is pre civil-war.

Under the Weather!

In more ways than one!



Illness as well as cold, wet weather has kept us out of the woods this week. The three shots above are from the special Christmas Service last Sunday afternoon at Knob Creek Church. The photos below have been taken over the past three weeks. The schoolhouses and the old home are all on the Oxford/Wideman Road. The artifacts were photographed courtesy of a friend of the site.