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Even though these buildings were located fairly far back in the woods, a lot of old tires had been dragged to them, some of them so long ago that trees had grown up through the center:

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This is one side of the exterior of the mill.  There were too many slopes and too much slippery mud for me to get around to the other sides, so I didn't get many pictures of it from the outside:

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This is the exterior of the mill on the side I entered, using the small wooden door on the right:

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We weren't the first people to visit this place in the fairly recent past - there were 3 chairs and a full-sized mattress placed inside.  A little graffiti, but it could have been worse.  Not much trash, either.  Seems whoever used to spend time here had an appreciation for it and tried not to make a big mess:

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This was the far wall looking in from the entrance.  Many areas had eroded and fallen away, but there was one stack of stones holding up this side of the building.   I started to go up the ladder, but when I realized it wasn't attached to anything and was just leaning precariously over the water, I chickened out:

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This is a close-up of the stones left bearing the wall.  Once these stones are gone, this whole side will probably tumble down into the river below:

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The next few photos are from the interior, but the roof was completely gone, so it's more like an interior/exterior area now, because the trees are growing on the inside:

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And now, on to the cemetery photos!  We actually visited 4 different cemeteries, and found that the newer areas were still well-kept, but the older sections were neglected and overgrown aside from maybe some half-hearted mowing that I suspect is only done once or twice per year in the places that "no one cares about".  Many of the headstones were broken and just left laying where they fell.  Any time we found trash in the ignored areas, we removed it ourselves before I took pictures of them:

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It's really hard to tell in this picture, but WAY off in the distance, in the lower right quadrant of the photo, you can see one of the cemeteries we went to.  It was eerie, but beautiful, the way it was just sitting in this clearing, in the middle of the woods, with no buildings or houses or any other signs of civilation around it.  The land was purchased by the water company many years ago, but they agreed to allow this graveyard to continue to be accessible by anyone who wanted to visit this gravesite, and they even mow the grass around it:

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Several of the graves had headstones with no names on them, and were covered with what looked like clam or mussel shells.  This was the only one in really good condition:

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This...tomb (??? I guess it's a tomb... not sure what to call it, really) was broken on this side, and the red Georgia clay looks really bold inside.  I hate to think that someone kicked it in, but by the broken pieces, I'm guessing that's what happened.  At least it provided me with an answer to the question "What is laying underneath these raised tombs?", because I sort of thought they weren't filled in with dirt, and that the coffins were visible inside.  Guess not! :

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Not sure how the ivy got on top of this monument, because the vines don't reach down to the ground.  I thought maybe it was fake, but nope...real:

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The grave on the left is unmarked - there was no engraving on the top.  I thought that was a bit strange consdering that it would have been a rather expensive tomb, in a prime plot location:

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The grave on the right was the most recent one in this particular cemetery (1975), and it was placed so close to the extremely old and decrepit unmarked grave to the left that I appreciated the stark contrast:

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I thought this one was beautiful:

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This was from one of the more recent well-kept areas in a cemetery in Jonesboro, but I hope it's okay to include it here anyway.  I got a kick out if the headstone being shaped like home base, for the President of the Atlanta Crackers minor league baseball team (corrected from before - they did not go on to become the Braves like I had thought):

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This cemetery is well kept, but the abandoned theme still applies, I think, because most of the graves inside are unmarked.  Hundreds of forgotten soldiers were buried where they fell during the Battle at Jonesboro, and then were relocated here many years later to remember them, even though they are unknown:

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And these are just some monuments that I liked the look of:

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Some of these pictures are really worth seeing in the larger size (like numbers 9,  12, 31, 33 [if you want to read the plaque] and 37 - in my opinion, at least), so if you are interested, just go here, and when you click on the pictures there is an option you can click above them that says "All Sizes" which will allow you to see a much bigger version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisaecton/sets/72157604072089954/

EDIT - Sorry, I guess the larger picture option was only showing up for me when I was looking at pictures on my own account, but I will leave the link in case anyone wants to wander around over there.  A few pictures that I didn't post here are in that set.