Last night it rained pretty hard. Thunder and lightning sometime before sunrise. Rain continued until about 1PM at which point it was just cloudy with fog/drizzle. While all that was going on we spent the AM mostly inside and the afternoon outside.
First up was the town of Sautee. This town has a surprisingly good pottery museum. The Folk Pottery Museum of North Georgia. They had a movie describing the process from digging up the clay to mixing it and adding glass to make glaze. Very interesting and lots of amazing pottery in the museum. There was also a number of art galleries in the same building.
In the same area was the Hardman Farm which we toured. Three families owned it and it is now a State Historic Site. There were a number of old black walnut trees with resserection ferns growing on them. We toured the house which had mostly original furniture, art work, and curtains. Many out buildings including a large barn that had an automatic feeding system, a stream cooled refrigerator-like building, cook houses, etc. There is also a large Indian burial mound on the property. The second owners built the church in town which we also visited. Crescent Hill Church. The second owner found and named Anna Ruby Falls which we saw earlier in the week. Anna Ruby was their daughter.
By this time the rain had stopped and we went to Raven Cliff Falls. A nice 5.5 mile RT hike along a stream with many waterfalls. At the end there is a large cliff area that the water comes down through. A very nice walk with something to see most of the time. Since it rained so much there was a semi difficult stream crossing where you needed to cross a few fallen logs to get across.
Dinner at the 7M farm to table place we went to the day before for lunch. A great place! This is our last day in North Georgia. Can still think of a number of things we didn't get to. Perhaps we return some day?
