Fulton County  Georgia History  Walraven Home (Rolader/Brown )

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The Rolader/Brown Cabin is  the house that Thomas M.
Walraven and Mary Emma Brown live in at the time of his
death. 


LOG CABIN DONATED FOR NEW MUSEUM
Great example of Atlanta's rural origins

Imagine a log cabin from the 1800s  found right here in
Buckhead, nestled in a neighborhood about two miles from
the Atlanta History Center.  We've found just that.
Recently, members of the Rolader family donated a 17' x
19' southern yellow pine log cabin.   The cabin belonged
to their family and was located on Moores Mill Road
since at least 1879.  This great addition to the Atlanta
Historical Society museum collection will be a real show
stopper in the new Museum of Atlanta History.   Plans are
to reconstruct the cabin, complete with hand-riven oak
shake roof, in the Folklife Gallery, scheduled to open in
1994.   It will be a fitting centerpiece to exhibit on
our rural origins.


The cabin has a interesting history.   When William
Washington Rolader married Arrie Cofield in 1879,  the
newlyweds moved into it.  Here, Rolader operated a
pottery making all kinds of pieces, including whiskey
jugs, flowerpots, churns, and food storage jars.  His
son, Ivon, took over the pottery following World War 1.
Ivon's wife Beuna remembered the clay being dug behind
the cabin, hauled by wagon to a nearby muledrawn mill,
and turned into pots fired in a kiln just east of the
house.  After Ivon left the pottery business, he earned
the nickname "Spring-Water" Rolader because he bottled
and sold mineral water from the cabin site.


The Rolader cabin has remained, through it was concealed
under board and batten siding and other additions.  Once
it was uncovered, we called on the expertis of David
Grant Howard of Knoxville, Tenn., who has directed the
dismantling and reconstruction of hundreds of log cabins
throughout the Southeast.   We carefully photographed and
numbered each log to assure accurate reconstruction.
Orkin Pest Control fumigated the cabin prior to its being
stored.


We are grateful to the Rolader family for donating and
assisting in dismantling and storing the cabin until it
is once again constructed, this time in the Museum of
Atlanta History.


This is from the Atlanta History Center   Newsletter Vol.
22, No. 5.  May 1991
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 The Rolader/Brown Cabin
is the one that was moved to the Atlanta History Center,  this is  the house
that Thomas M. Walraven and Mary Emma Brown live in at the time of his
death.  Will send you that later also.    Most all of these Families are
buried at Sardis Methodist Church in Buckhead,  which is in Fulton Co., Ga.