Hall County House

This old Hall County House is peculiar in that it is old yet does not have an exact date of construction. All that is known is that the house appeared on the county rolls in 1845. The land was settled in 1818 when Frederick Dean got it in a land lottery. He sold the property to Jacob Rogers in 1826. Rogers was the first European to own the property which was now named Glades Farm after Glades Shoals along Flat Creek. It is believed Rogers built the house you see here but Dean probably started it as a two story log cabin as the property was rich in timber. In the 1830s gold was discovered on his property along flat creek and of course it was mined, the riches of which gave Rogers the money to rebuild the house into what you see here. In 1845 a 2.5 carat diamond was discovered but legend has it that a miner had the diamond slip from his fingers and lose it. The property was 775 acres when Jim Hunt bought it in 1906 and when he died, he willed the property to the University of Georgia who he had allowed to do forestry research on the property. In 1942, the property, which was now over 6000 acres was sold to Mose Gordon who bought other property to get to over 8000 acres. He ran a lumber mill until his death in 1971. The Mayr-Melnhof family bought the property for their timber business. By the 1990s Hall County eyed the land for a new reservoir independent of Lake Lanier and eventually the owners sold a bunch of the land for a new reservoir. The family members who owned the land have now died and the reservoir has not been built yet for whatever the reason.
Andy Sarge