LOG HOME ROAD TRIP: Georgia
With Georgia on our minds and log homes in our hearts, we took a tour through the Peach State and found it offers an intoxicating blend of cosmopolitan cities, genteel antebellum hamlets and rustic homesteads. Headquartering such global powerhouses as UPS, Home Depot and Coca-Cola, it also contains several of the log home industry’s leading innovators, not to mention historic sites and gorgeous gardens. Whether you drive, bike or hike around the “empire state of the south,” be sure to incorporate these noteworthy stops along your Log Home Road Trip.
Attractions & Adventure
1 Brotherton Cabin
LaFayette Road and Brotherton Road, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
nps.gov/chch/learn/historyculture/chickamauga-battlefield.htm
A tiny log cabin played a huge role on the Chickamauga Battlefield. On September 20, 1863, Lieutenant General James Longstreet moved his men into this area to take advantage of a weak spot in Union General George Thomas’s line—a maneuver regarded as “the breakthrough.” Assembling his army at the site, Longstreet relied on his secret weapon—Tom Brotherton—a Confederate officer who lived in the cabin and knew
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