Thinking about 2025/2026 Projects at... BACK 40 FISH CAMP
Out where signals...end
Back 40 Fish Camp ~ Elbert County Georgia Est 2020
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HISTORY
For 13,000 years it was Palioindian land
In 1732 it became part of the 13th Colony
288 years later
B40FC
Back 40 sits high above the Original Savannah River Channel
THE RIVERS BEEN LAID DOWN TO SLEEP ON THE GA/SC STATE LINE
- The 26,500 acre reservoir and dam was authorized by Congress in 1966 with the original name being Trotters Shoals Lake
- 18 years later in 1984 the water was brought to full pool behind the dam and swallowed the Savannah
- Lake Russell's max depth is 147 feet
- B40FC sits on Lake Russell with 2200+ feet of unbroken waterline
The water has always flown past this place and out to Sea...
You can feel the History of this Ancient River Crossing
THE PASSING SOULS
I PRAY TO KEEP
Indian ▪︎ Trapper ▪︎ Settler
Slave ▪︎ Slaver ▪ Soldier
Wanderers and Explorers {past and present}.. the thread of humanity going back over 133 centuries has left behind a life and death presence.. This final stopping place has been quietly waiting to have me too
CROSS MY HEART & THE RIVER
Sanders Ferry River Crossing over the Savannah ■
A group of people with horse and buggy are being ferried across the Savannah River to South Carolina, ca. 1910-19, by Sanders's Ferry. J. D. Rucker is fifth from left and Grace C. Rucker is sixth from left. The man seated is operating the ferry
Courtesy of Georgia Archives
I searched and waited and thought.... then [it] found me
[it]... is a nice set of Foothills worthy of a solid name...
~ BACK 40 FISH CAMP ~
3766 Anderson Highway
Elberton Georgia 30635
I first walked it in 2017 •
It took three years to put together and square away • by 2020 this Privileged Wood [equal to 30 football fields :] had been fully realized • I feel individually blessed to have found this place to share live...
AND HOPE TO DIE
I will get done what I can in 25/26 ● My Concept art from 2017
Hopes and Thought's and pictures
My Dead on... Dead end
Solid high ground animated by natures clock and calendar
BACK 40 Camp is a private 17.5 acre wooded haunt with a creek a cove and a deep water shore front on the historic boundry between the Creek People and Cherokee Nation ■
The property is solely adjacent to an additional 21.41 acres of corp property and sits above the original Savannah River channel... now resting deep below the surface of the Lake ■
Beauty with a hint of Spooky...
Many Lives and Spirits... Dreams and Nightmares have passed over, across and through this State Boundry of land to water to land ■
B40FC has direct access to 41.6 sq miles of open water and is surrounded by 26,500 acres of Preservation Land ■
No Social... No Media... No signal....You might get 1 or 2 bars on a high spot
▪︎ B40 is a stand alone compound...holding the banks and land on both sides of it's creek...
▪︎ the [North] boundry is the last half mile in Georgia of unshared frontage on SR 368 or Anderson Highway ending at the Corp line with 0 neighbors to the main parcel...
▪︎ the [South] boundry has 3 neighbors all kept separate by 2 additional buffer lots the creek itself, and the land on the South side of the creek...
▪︎ the [West] boundry is an unbroken property line stretching N to S from Rt 368 to Utah Drive...
▪︎ the [East] property line is 302.7 ft to the Lake from the Corp Line ... The Fish Camp is the only adjacent private property to this 2201 feet of water line...
▪ At night it gets pitch dark ... but if the sky is clear you will observe a Universe that is switched ON... with nearly zero light pollution
▪ Lake Russell is just water and woods... with almost no shoreline development... A timeless natural contrast to both Hartwell and Clark's Hill Lakes
▪ Russells water level is constant +or- 5 feet all year round, high water is required for the Russell dams dual directional pumping system to operate... the other lakes above and below can drop by as much as 35 feet while Russell stays at full pool
▪ B40's land starts as a long hollow on high ground with multiple foothills and ravines on either side of a constant creek... it also has large, level hill top areas... the last hill top looks down and out across the lake
▪ B40 was home to the Western landing of the Sanders Ferry that operated a crossing on the river... Old Woods Rd runs the length of the property... this road was a loop with its last stop at the Savannah Rivers west bank... when the Anderson-Elberton Free Bridge was formally opened on March 17, 1927 the old loop was abandonded... The Bridge was eventually renamed the Sanders Ferry Bridge and in 1940 the new bridge road was paved and became SR 82 in 1970 it was redesignated as SR 368... the old unpaved road on the property has been a fisherman path • lovers lane • and farmers junk dump for the last 97 years...
▪ Fearless swimming... Lake Russell is a USACE Federally designated Nature Lake and has extremely clean water due to the 19,635 acres of undeveloped Corp property and a 300 foot Lake Shore perimeter set back... in addition to the ajoining 17,300 acres of USFS Wildlife Management land
The Beautiful Gulf of Elberton
That's the Georgia / South Carolina State line bobbing in the middle of the channel ...............
"Here... fishy fishy"
Proposed building site for Overlook Hotel 🤣
25/26 Driveway / Gates
Battle Cry....Get rid of the Pine !