Gary:
On mature reflection, I need to clarify how the roads apparently led into Lisbon. I tired to drive back into there about 15 years ago. When you get to the Crops boundary, and the recreation area, the road forks. The left fork apparently led to Lisbon, but it had to cross Fishing Creek, and by the time I was there that certainly was out. There is an alternate way into the old site of Lisbon, and without a Georgia map, I am at a loss as to the names of the roads, but suffice it to say, go north (towards Elberton), and go past Beulah Bap Currch. There is a road that leads to the left, to go into "Gill's Creek Recreational Area." Go past it about a mile, to an X junction. The left fork (paved) leads back to Tignal,; the right fork (dirt) led on to Lisbon, avoiding the crossing of Fishing Creek ( I hope I've got the names of the streams right). That dirt road leads right into Lisbon. However, when I tried to take it, loggers had stopped it up probvably a mile short of Lisbon. My udnerstanding is that the old town site is right at the high water mark. I have not been there, but I am sure that a person who is detemrined could do so. I suspect that when I went there, over a half century ago, the T junction was as a result of the Graball Road (the main road in times past) being closed becuase of the crossing of Fishing Creek. I was told by a freind, who si nwo dead, that ther is nothing left at Lisbon, maybve the foundations of the old store and of the hose I mentioned in my previous post. I truly don't know. But clearly the main road in Confederate days led form Lisbon towhere the Cehnnault house now is, and from there via Danburg on to Washington. I am going to get out my West Point Atlas, but I dont' think it will show anything different from what I have mentioned. For what it is worth, there was a series of what became the Coast and Goedetic Survey of this general area which was produced about 1895. I knolw that the South Carolinana Library, at University of S.C. in Columbia, has the old series. The next time I am there, I want to see if the maps of that time period cover that area. By the way, I am sure that Pat Hester (J. P. Hester) knows a lot more of the geography and history than I ever did. I am going to call him and try to get his take on this. Lee