Photo Archive

Lyerly Homeguard trains at Lyerly School during WWII

Students at Lyerly School were part of the Home Guard during World War II

Confederate veterans going to a reunion in 1919

The Holland House near the Alabama line was built around 1886.Unfortunately the house burned in the 1980’s

The Strain Home in 1910. Located near Lyerly, it was later known as the Weesner Home

Home Demonstration Clubs were once popular. They were sponsored by the Univ. of Ga. Extension Service and helped women with food preservation, cooking, sewing, etc.

Plowing the garden at one of the oldest houses in county, the Price House out from Lyerly. This 1930’s photo shows a family trying to survive the great depression.

Chattooga Boys Corn Club circa 1910, encouraged agriculture in the county

Lyerly Mattress Co. started in 1927

Thomas Brewer selling vegetables in Lyerly circa 1942

Augustus Finley family 1906. Augustus( left front was born a slave in Chattoogaville and bought his wife’s freedom.His descendants still live in the area

A Sunday afternoon stroll near the Chattooga River near Lyerly

Ruins of Price House ,near Lyerly, one of the oldest homes in the county

Covered bridge, near Price’s Bridge Road near Chattoogaville, pre 1930s

1954 Lyerly telephone numbers

1898 map showing train route through Tulip and Sprite from Lyerly

Mr. H.L. Abrams, Lyerly Depot Agent, 1920s, with daughter

Lyerly Dam power house over 100 years ago

Lyerly School 1915

Holland Training School, a Rosenwald school