Old Photographs

Rhodes Mill: History - Old Sketches - Old Photos - Later Photos - Family Tree

These first four photographs date from the very late nineteenth century, when Newton Marion Rhodes was still alive and his mill still producing lumber.

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Rhodes Mill and its founder Newton Marion Rhodes (1897). The Greatgrandfather essay describes this image: “he strolled down to be photographed, with Uncle Jule and some six or eight men from the mill, on the dock where logs were rolled after being drawn up from the pond. ... It was not very cold when the picture was taken. Some men were in coats, others in shirtsleeves, but Greatgrandfather has his hat on and a cape around his shoulders, as befitted an old man.”

Joseph Turner Rhodes' House in the community of Shell that had built up around his father's mill.
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The Rhodes Store founded in Georgiana by brothers Dan and Newton T. Rhodes after they left Shell; the building still stands today.
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Wesley Chapel was built with lumber from Newton Marion Rhodes' mill, and supported with tie rods fetched by his grandson Joseph Elmer Rhodes Sr.
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Lena (Atkinson) Rhodes

These images show Lena Atkinson and her father, known familiarly as Grandpa Atkinson. Lena married Joseph Turner Rhodes, listed here in our family tree.

Lena Atkinson.
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Lena Atkinson.
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T. E. Atkinson.
Father of Lena Atkinson.
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