The Gray Court-Owings Historical Society, under the direction of Dianne Culbertson, President, has asked the McGowan Camp to assist in moving the Atwood Cabin to a new location.

According to Dianne, the cabin was built ca. 1800 and was lived in by the Atwood family for many years.  John Atwood married Lucy Robertson in Culpepper, Va. and they lived in the cabin upon moving to this area.  Six of their sons served in the Confederate Army and also a number of grandsons.  One son

was Laurens County Sheriff.  The house was added onto over the years and was one of four houses in Gray Court before the War Between the States.  It is on Georgia Rd., an old stagecoach road.  We plan to move it to a site just west of its original site. 

The new site will be a historic park with the cabin, pole barn, one room school, and perhaps a chapel.  There is a cemetery on the hill behind the site with a number of Confederate soldiers buried there.  We are excited about preserving a part of our history and heritage and the historical society plans to use it to teach and inform visitors all about it. 

We will be moving the cabin on June 21, 2003 and will meet at the cabin at the corner of Hwy 92 and Georgia Rd. in Gray Court about 9:00 AM.  We can park most of the vehicles at the future site, which is just one block east of Hwy 14 on Georgia Rd., just in front of the Gray Court Cemetery. 

Dianne asks that you bring gloves and hammers.  If anyone has access to a trackhoe or front-end loader that would be wonderful, if not we will need to rent one.  Dianne has expressed her thanks and appreciation to all for their help and support.  We are really excited about making this dream a reality!