Sandy Bottom

Cotton Home

At the end of what is now Cotton Farm Lane there lived the family of John Corbell, a large land owner in the late 1800s.  Little is known of the fate of the original Corbell home yet we know a new structure was built around 1900.  From this original s...

Cowling-Pope Farm Home

The Pope house that is currently standing was built c1869.  John Henry Powell , father of Annie Powell (married Leroy Pope, Sr.), rented the farm before the Popes bought it.  The kitchen and dining room on the Pope farm were separate from main house.  Th...

Henry Pruden Farm Home

Henry Pruden, great grandfather of Deborah Pruden Powell, bought the farm in 1882 from John Baker and built the house for his family of two adults and six children. It was a classic “two on two” house with a wide hall downstairs, two rooms and small box...