Nathan and I went to Cooper’s Furnace yesterday. It was an iron works during the civil war. It was built by Jacob Stroup in the 1830’s and then purchased by Mark Cooper, a politician, after losing the election for governor to George Crawford in 1843. Cooper sold his half of the business and built the Etowah Railroad that passed the iron works business. On May 22, 1864 it was almost totally destroyed by Sherman’s troops on his march to the sea and the town was flooded when the Corp of Engineers created Lake Allatoona. All that is left is this furnace.
It is fun to explore our history. Nathan loves the civil war and going to different places around us to explore the history. At first, I didn’t really care for it, but now I think it is so much fun to find out about the places around us.
On the way back to town from Cooper’s Furnace we came around a corner and there was a wild turkey standing in the middle of the road. We almost hit it. It was huge. We didn’t get a picture because it waddled away before I could get my camera or phone out.
There are many places that we are going to go to as well since the 150th anniversary of the civil war has started. He wants to go to Gettysburg next year and will be making our reservations as soon as he can.
In a couple of weeks is The Great Locomotive Chase festival. We are going to go to that as well. I will put pictures up of that as well.
