Today’s mystery is a classical and handsome old building. Now can you identify just where this Mystery Photo is located? Send your guess to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Talk about a difficult photo! Yes, the last Mystery photo must have been hard, for only one reader, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., was able to deduce where it was located. The photograph came from Bill Baughman of Snellville, who by the way, has been under the weather and is in rehab, we understand, after taking a fall.
Graf scoped it out and found the mystery was “The Higginbotham House in Twin City, Ga., down in Emanuel County. Indeed it was difficult to locate. Higgenbotham House was built by Jefferson Davis Durden and recently restored by its current owner. The early Durden family were entrepreneurs in the area. Twin City began as the town of Summit which was incorporated on April 25, 1898, at the present intersection of U.S. 80 and Georgia Highway 23, as the center. In 1921 a legislative act was introduced to incorporate them as one; thus Twin City was formed. The House is part of the Twin City Historic District which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
But Graf did not get the Georgia and Gwinnett political significance of the house. It was later owned by Lynda Cowart Pierce, who was at one time a University of Georgia extension agent in Gwinnett County. Then in 1984 she became the new wife of former Governor and later Sen. Herman Talmadge, though 26 years younger. Talmadge died in 2002. Lynda Talmadge continues to reside in Twin City.
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