Watkinsville GA Rusty Water Historic Water Tower Industrual Architectural Art

by Reid Callaway

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Watkinsville GA Rusty Water Historic Water Tower Industrual Architectural Art

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Reid Callaway

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Watkinsville Ga Rusty Water.....by Reid Callaway
Historic Water Tower Industrial Architectural Art

The City of Watkinsville's historic water tower is looking better than ever with the new rust look and all the great colors coming alive in the afternoon sun with blue skies and billowing white clouds. There is a fence all the way around this structure now, to prevent climbing it, I would assume, that ruins this once great view.... PTL! I got my images before the fences went up! The famous Iron Horse sculpture is located just south of here down Hwy 15 and I captured many wonderful images there as well, before the new fences went up.... Please look in The Iron Horse Collection....

Watkinsville is the largest city and seat of Oconee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 2,832. It had previously been the seat of Clarke County until 1872 when the county seat of that county was moved to Athens, a move which ultimately led to the creation of Oconee County in 1875. It is included in the Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

In 1802, Watkinsville, originally known as the 'Big Springs' community, was named after Colonel Robert Watkins of Augusta, a lawyer and early compiler of A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia through 1799. Watkinsville was a village located on the dangerous western frontier of the new United States between Creek and Cherokee territories.

Eagle Tavern, believed to stand on the site of the old Fort Edward, opened in 1801 and today serves as a museum commemorating the era of wagon and stage travel. Watkinsville first appeared in Clarke County records in 1791; only fifty-eight years after James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia. In 1802, John Cobb gave up eight lots of his plantation to create the city. And on November 24, 1806 the City became the Incorporated Town of Watkinsville. It then became the seat for Clarke County and remained so until 1872, when Athens took over that role. Angry locals voted to create a new county, named after the Oconee River on its eastern border, and Watkinsville became its seat on February 25, 1875.

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April 26th, 2014

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