John Hunter's Cabin

This is a postcard of John Hunter's Cabin that was in Union County, Georgia, about 10 miles south of Blairsville.

John was born about 1775 in probably Burke County, North Carolina, and died 1848 in this cabin.  It has  been  handed down that John left North Carolina in about 1835.  It is said that he moved to Georgia because the State of North Carolina started taxing distilleries.    Making whiskey was John Hunter's source of income.

It was also handed down that while he and some of his sons cleared off the land the other sons fought off the Indians.   I'm not sure that is entirely true.

Also on the postcard it states that it is the cabin of Daniel England.  That is not entirely true.  It was built by John Hunter and he and his single daughter  Martha lived in it.   When John died in 1848 his daughter  Harriet and her husband Daniel England moved in with Martha.

It is not a very big dwelling.  In the early 1980s my two sons and I went into it.  It was on the edge of a field with the Nottely River behind it.  The entire cabin was no bigger than a great room in modern times.  I found it interesting that a snake had molted on jagged rocks framing  the fireplace. and left its skin there.

About five or so years ago whoever owns the land decided to bulldoze the cabin.  Charles Hunter bought the house and had it taken  apart and each plank numbered so it could be reassembled some day.