Providence Canyon State Park / Westville, GA

Providence Canyon State Park is a geological oddity located in southwestern Georgia, near the town of Lumpkin. The park contains 16 colorful canyons, some as deep as 150 feet, and over 10 miles of hiking trails. Known as Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon", the canyons were formed in the mid-1800's from erosion caused by the poor farming methods employed by local residents.




There are a number of overlooks that can be easily accessed by a rim-top hiking trail, or from parking spots along the park road.


For some scale, there are four people at the overlook in the middle of this picture (look near the "point" of the red cliff).

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Westville, also located near Lumpkin, is a unique living history museum that allows you to visit a western Georgia town just as it was in 1850. All of the buildings have been collected from throughout Georgia and Alabama and relocated to the town site.

(More fun with software - this time I took my digital pictures, added sepia and made them grainier to give them an "old time" look.)


This building is set up as a two-story schoolhouse.


The McDonald house, an impressive antebellum residence.


The Chattahoochee County Courthouse.


A board frame residence.


The oxen-powered cotton baling press. I probably could have told you that this was an authentic late 1800's photograph if it weren't for the stylish fleece vest my sister is wearing...

Unfortunately, Westville was closed the day we visited (d'oh!), so we weren't able to see any of the townspeople. We are planning a return trip later this year, so I'll post more pictures at that time.

All pictures in this post were taken with a 2.0 megapixel Canon Powershot A60 on December 28^th, 2004.