An Enigmatic Trip West

      There was one simple reason to get in the car last Saturday and head out west on US Highway 82. There was an oversight in our courthouse quest that needed to be corrected, combined with a day with no plans, and there we were westward bound.

   As I was going back into my files, making sure that all 160 Georgia courthouses had the right picture with them, I came to Berrien County, noticing that the picture on the web for that courthouse was not the same as I had taken. A closer reading of the information on the site showed that I had photographed the current building correctly, but had failed to notice that there was an older one, still located on the square in Nashville. In putting the photos together for all the counties, I had purposefully tried to include for each county the oldest building still standing, even if it had been replaced as a working courthouse.

   So, we needed a shot of the 1898 courthouse in Nashville, and off we went.

   There is another town on US 82, just west of Alapaha, Enigma, that we had passed through numerous times on our way to our daughter's in Arkansas. The town is not right on the highway, but I had always wanted to get off the main road and discover that town with the strange name.

   So we dropped south a little and found Enigma. A water tower, two churches sitting right next to each other, and a small line of stores.

   The Baptist church and the Methodist church, sitting there side by side with only a small side street separating them. I sure hoped they got along.

   Have you ever zipped along a highway, seen the name of a town that is a little off that main road and wanted to investigate?

   Do it, you might find an "Enigma" waiting for you.

   And how in the world did we miss that old courthouse in Nashville? It was not like it was not outstanding in the middle of town.