Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn, 11512 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtown

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The Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn is located at Cumming Highway/State Route 20 (SR 20) in Cherokee County, Georgia. The resource sits on the south side of the highway and stands just west of Arbor Hill Road. The barn is located at latitude: longitude: This point was taken from the center of the Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn. It was obtained on September 10, using Google Earth There is no restriction on its release to the public.

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The Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn is a contributing resource to the Lathemtown Historic District. The early twentieth-century barn supports Lathemtown s significance as an intact, rural historic district. The barn stands as a representation of the agricultural community s continued growth and development during the first half of the twentieth century. See the Lathemtown Historic District (HABS No. GA-2445) overview for further discussion of overall district significance. Historians: Marvin Brown, M.A., Senior Architectural Historian, AECOM Sarah Potere, Architectural Historian, AECOM Report Completed October

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The Georgia Department of Transportation is implementing plans to widen State Route 20 from two to six lanes between Scott Road (near Canton) and North Corners Parkway (near Cumming). The project corridor spans approximately miles and falls within Cherokee and Forsyth Counties. As a result of this roadway expansion, all or part of the Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn will be demolished. Mitigation efforts were explored and a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was developed between the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Georgia Department of Transportation, and the Georgia State Historic Preservation Officer. This Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation (historical narrative report and large format photography) was prepared in accordance with the stipulations of the MOA.

LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 2) Description: The Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn stands on the south side of the intersection of SR 20 and Arbor Hill Road. The barn shares its parcel with the Bud and Alice Turner House (GA-2445-H), which sits approximately 75 -0 to its northeast. The early twentieth-century transverse-crib barn is rectangular in plan and oriented to the north. It is comprised of two sections which include a front- gabled main block and a shed-roof addition, which extends from its western facade. Built of frame, the building is clad with both standing-seam-metal and corrugated metal panels. Its roof is topped with standing-seam metal and features exposed rafters at its eastern facade.

A large, rectangular, stepped, parapet fronts the building s north (front) facade. Centered beneath the parapet is the building s large, primary entrance which has lost its original door. Multiple secondary openings punctuate the building s eastern (side) facade and hold an assortment of replacement doors and windows (Figure 3 and Figure 4). Extending from the building s western (side) facade, the shed-roof addition is open-air. It is supported by wooden posts and divisible into four bays on its western (side) facade. The posts are spanned by horizontal wood members to create a partially enclosed space. Its roof is clad in standing-seam metal and features exposed rafter tails (Figure 5).

History: Harrison Alonzo Turner and his wife, Alice Lathem moved to Lathemtown between and (Harrison went by Bud, or Lonzo). Probably late in the decade, they erected their home (the Bud and Alice Turner House, GA-2445-H)) at Cumming Highway, as well as the mule barn just southwest of the house. In they lived in Mullins township, west of Lathemtown, where Bud farmed, but by they occupied their Lathemtown house and Bud was self-employed as a horse trader.

In all likelihood, he was operating his horse and mule business out of this barn, which would have made it the first of four built in the community in the early twentieth century.1 Bud continued in the trade until his death in His draft card identified him as a farmer and trader; the census classified him as dealer in livestock; the census called him a livestock trader; and his death certificate identified him with the horse business.2 1 U.S. Bureau of the Census,1900 and Federal Censuses; Mary Helen Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown (Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Women, 2 U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, Harrison Turner, accessed June-August https://www.a ncestry.com /; U.S.

Bureau of the Census, and Federal Censuses; Georgia, Death Index, Harrison Turner, accessed April https://www.ancestry.com. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 3) When Bud died, his older brother, Andrew J. Turner purchased the house and barn. One of Bud s many siblings, he was 11 years his senior. Andrew was married to Harriet M. Roper The census identifies their son, Samuel (Sam) J. Turner, as having taken over the sale barn and the livestock business.3 Sam was married to Mamie L. Gilleland In the Sam Turner held Saturday cattle auctions across Arbor Hill Road at the Tom Smith Store, which stood at the corner of Arbor Hill and Cumming Highway. The cattle were kept in a sale barn that stood near the mule barn.

The business was built by Sam and Mamie s son, Charles Dwight Dude Turner Both the Smith Store and cattle sale barn have been demolished.4 In Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, an oral history of the community, the barn is referred to by various individuals and in photo captions as the Sam Turner Mule Barn. This is likely because those interviewed for the book were too young to remember Bud Turner.5 It is invariably referred to as a mule barn, even though it was home to horses as well. In Sam and Mamie s son and daughter-in-law, Leneal and Joyce Turner, transferred multiple parcels and tracts of land to the Turner Family Trust. This property included the house and barn, which the trust continues to own.6

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Cherokee County Clerk of Court Office, Canton. Deed Book Page Cissell, Mary Helen. Living Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown. Orange, GA: Orange United Methodist Church, Georgia, Death Index, Harrison Turner. Accessed April www.ancestry.com. United States Bureau of the Census. United States Federal Census. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com/. 3 Cissell, Living, Laughing and Loving in Old Lathemtown, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Federal Census. 4 Dude Turner said of the cattle business in I started up a cattle sale business and built the cattle sale barn on Hwy 20. I went all over South Georgia and up to North Carolina to work cattle sales and bring cattle back up here to sell. I put on my shoes many a time at Monday morning and [had] not pulled them off until Saturday night.

I slept in barns and trucks going to cattle sales. In Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 5 Cissell, Living, Laughing, Loving in Old Lathemtown, 44, and 6 Cherokee County Deed Book LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 4) U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, Harrison Turner. Accessed June-August https://www.ancestry.com/. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 5) Supplemental Materials 1. Figures Georgia GIO State Imagery September Figure 1: Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn District Locator Map. LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 6) Figure 2: Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn Site Map.

LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 7) Figure 3: Oblique of Barn, north (front) and east (side) facades. View looking southwest. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 8) Figure 4: Oblique of Barn, north (front) and west (side) facades. View looking southeast. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July LATHEMTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT, BUD AND SAM TURNER MULE BARN HABS No. GA-2445-I (Page 9) Figure 5: Barn west (side) facade. View looking east. (Photograph by Sarah Potere, July