A Collection Of Homes in Porterdale
Photo's taken September 23, 2003
Note many are in a state of disrepair.  It should be noted that there is a renovation program underway as noted by some of these pictures.

Six Room Houses - Each Family Had Three Rooms

A building that was two building to the right of the rock house (now burned down) is the one that Lucille (Ivey) Shaw writes about in her book "Diary of a Cotton Mill Girl" when she says: the "old" hotel, which is located on the south side of the river across the road and up just a little piece from "Porter Place", or what was called in the early days, "Cedar Shoals Place".  "The Brannen family had built a large two-story house on the south side of the river to house boarders around 1894.  After the Brannens, W. J. Kiser and his wife ran the boarding house.  The hotel was sold to Mrs. Effie King, a widow, in 1921.  Most of the young married couples spent their honeymoon in this hotel.  In later years Mrs. King served meals on Sundays and the large dining room was always filled."  Mom thought this was the first business of this kind in the county.