After being moved from Post Oak Tritt Road in August, the Power-Jackson Cabin will soon undergo restoration work at its new home at Hyde Farm in East Cobb.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 Tuesday to fund the restoration work for $354,000, preserving the 1840s-era structure for use at Hyde Farm, a Cobb PARKS educational and recreational facility.
The contract was awarded to Leatherwood Inc., a Tennessee-based company that restored 13 structures at Hyde Farm in 2014.
The work will include setting a stone foundation, installing wide plank flooring, repairing logs as necessary and installing a front porch to the log cabin. The building also will be coated with an insecticide and waterproofed, according to Leatherwood’s scope of work.
“As a collaborative community effort, moving the cabin to and restoring the cabin at Hyde Farm honors the history of Cobb County by saving this valuable historic asset,” stated an agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting.
Commissioner JoAnn Birrell of East Cobb asked Cobb PARKS director Michael Brantley what specific plans might be in store for the cabin once it’s restored.
He said there are several possibilities as Hyde Farm expands, including using the cabin as a nature center, and for other educational functions.
Also being considered are using the cabin as part of a walking tour around the pond at Hyde Farm, he added, but no final decisions have been made.
Hyde Farm, located off Lower Roswell Road near the Chattahoochee River, is where two other Power family cabins exist, as part of a working 1840s farm that was in family hands until the 1990s.
According to the agenda item, the original cost of the Power-Jackson Cabin restoration was set at $321,000, but extra funds were needed to replace wood elements that deteriorated “greater than was originally anticipated.”
The funding is coming from the 2011 Cobb Parks SPLOST.
The Power-Jackson Cabin is regarded as one of the oldest existing structures in Cobb County. Cobb Landmarks, a Marietta non-profit, raised more than $70,000 to move the cabin to Hyde Farm.
The Power-Jackson Cabin, possibly built before 1840 by farmer William Power, was located on 13 undeveloped acres on Post Oak Tritt Road near McPherson Road that was part of a 2023 zoning case.
Landowner Kenneth B. Clary sought rezoning for a single-family subdivision, but issues over the cabin and possible Power family burials complicated the issue.
Clary later withdrew the rezoning request, and his family agreed to allow Cobb Landmarks to remove the cabin.
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