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BARROW JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008
Museum refurbishing nears
TREASURE TROVE
The Barrow County Museum is a veritable treasure trove of memorabilia and artifacts
relating to the history of Barrow County. Museum volunteers have been working to
organize several decade’s worth of acquisitions into new displays for museum visi
tors.
WORKING AT MUSEUM
Museum trustee Beth Barton is one of several people
who have volunteered their time and efforts to renovate
the Barrow County Museum. Photos by Kristi Reed
BY KRISTI REED
fter months of
renovations, the
Barrow County
Museum will soon re-open
its doors.
Scheduled for December
6, the opening ceremonies
will give museum visitors
the opportunity to explore
new displays and exhibits
in the refurbished building
as well as the opportunity
to watch demonstrations of
quilting, spinning and other
crafts.
Museum trustee Beth
Barton said she has a lot of
hard work ahead of her, but
is excited about the changes
to the museum and hopes
visitors will be as well.
“I really hope more people
come and see the museum,”
she said. "There is so much
history here.”
NEEDED
RENOVATION
Not only were the museum
renovations welcome, they
were absolutely necessary,
Barton said.
After termites caused
extensive damage to the
front rooms of the museum,
the walls and floors were
completely redone.
“These rooms were so
eat up with termites, that
we were falling through the
floor,” Barton said.
The windows and transoms
were also renovated to more
closely reflect the buildings
original appearance.
The restored rooms will
house some of the museum’s
newest displays.
One of the rooms will fea
ture a recreated Victorian
era parlor. Barton said the
museum acquired several
pieces of Victorian furniture
and artifacts when a bene
factor, Jimmy Ruth Hunter,
donated her belongings to
the museum.
The entrance room to the
museum will contain several
new displays. Barton said.
Winder’s pottery indus
try, train history and Native
American history will each
have displays.
Barton said the displays
for the entrance were chosen
based on their historical sig
nificance within the county.
With Winder being named
for a train executive, the
train history display was
an obvious choice. Barton
explained.
The pottery industry was
also very significant from
a historical perspective, she
said.
“Nationwide, Winder was
the nation’s largest manu
facturer of pottery in the late
1800’s,” Barton said.
The highlight of the new
display will be a collection
of jugs made by the great-
great-great-grandson of one
of Barrow’s early residents,
Eli Davenport Hewell.
His namesake, ten-year
old Eli Davenport Hewell,
is crafting several miniature
jugs for the display.
The Native American dis
play will be highlighted with
a stone from the temple at
Nodoroc, an ancient Indian
historical site.
Nodoroc, located approxi
mately three miles east of
Winder, was once a boiling
lake of mud. The ancient
Indians erected a temple at
the location and are believed
to have made human sacrific
es at the location. The Creek
Indians considered the place
cursed and traded the area
to white settlers in exchange
for fourteen pounds of beads;
hence Barrow’s early nick
name “Beadland.”
The final display will be
a monthly feature display.
Historical society founder
and former museum curator
C. Fred Ingram will be hon
ored for his work in estab
lishing the museum. As part
of the museum’s December
6 re-opening ceremonies,
a tree will be planted in
Ingram’s honor on the muse
um grounds. The displays
throughout the rest of the
museum are also getting a
facelift, Barton said.
Volunteers have been
working to re-organize and
add to existing displays.
Barton said the museum has
acquired numerous artifacts
over the years that have been
placed in storage until the
items could be properly cata
logued.
The museum has been
without a curator since the
death of Ingram, Barton
said.
With few volunteers, cata
loging the museum’s collec
tion has been a slow and
laborious process.
By the opening date. Barton
hopes to have most of the
reorganization complete and
hopes to add a research room
with some of the books and
periodicals that have been
donated over the years.
Barton said it is important
to document not only the sig
nificant events in Barrow’s
past, but the interesting peo
ple who have contributed to
the county’s history.
“We have had some really
neat people in this county,”
she said.
MUSEUM FACTS
The Barrow County
Museum building was origi
nally used as the county’s
jail. Built in 1915, the muse
um still features several of
the original jail cells includ
ing a windowless, un-lighted
solitary confinement cell.
While most of the museum
will be open to visitors, the
infamous hanging tower will
remain off-limits. Barton
said.
According to Barton, hang
ing was outlawed before the
tower was ever put to use. It
was designed, however, so
that witnesses to an execution
could watch from outside the
jail. The tower is roofed now,
but was originally open to
the elements.
“What they wanted was
a hanging pole,” Barton
explained. The condemned
would climb a scaffold and
the pole would be visible
above the jail house battle
ments.
“The people outside could
see them,” Barton said. “They
would drop, but the people
couldn’t see them when their
neck broke.”
While visitors have
expressed interest in see
ing the tower, the fire codes
make it impossible to open
that part of the museum to
tourists.
THE FUTURE
While the doors will re
open in December, the work
will not stop then. Barton
said.
The Barrow County
Historical Society continues
to seek volunteers to help
with their ongoing efforts to
keep Barrow’s history alive.
The museum’s operations
are funded entirely through
donations. There are no paid
employees of the museum,
so volunteer help is critical
Barton said.
“Anybody willing to share
sweat equity is welcome,”
she said.
For more information
about volunteering or to
make a donation, call Beth
Barton at 770-868-7573.
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