- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Crescent Farm Rock Barn historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Cherokee County
Barns--Georgia--Cherokee County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, Canton, 34.23676, -84.49076
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 5 next to the high school in Canton
Text of marker: "CRESCENT FARM ROCK BARN. The Crescent Farm Rock Barn was constructed in 1906 by Augustus (Gus) Lee Coggins. One of a rare number of rock barns constructed in Georgia, the Rock Barn, together with the nearby Georgian Revival style main house, constitutes the core of the original Crescent Farm.Originally a race horse stable, the rock barn was one of three barns on Coggins' cotton and horse farm. It was built to replace a wooden barn destroyed in a fire which killed valuable race horses. The Rock Barn is made of rock quarried on the original farm from the banks of the Etowah River. Coggins bred and raised horses for harness racing. Crescent Farm was widely known in the racing circle because of Abbedale, its world class racehorse. Abbedale brought fame to Crescent Farm and is listed in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in Goshen, N.Y. Abbedale sired six pacers with two-minute mile records. 028-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL MARKER 1990" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_crescent-farm-rock-barn
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_crescent-farm-rock-barn
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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