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A Unique Property
This is a unique property because this Century Old
Victorian House has a great history.
The Victorian Home would make a great Restaurant, Law Firm, Business Offices, or even a Bed and Breakfast since it has easy
access to Interstate 675 (near 285) and Atlanta. Moreover, there are no hotels or places to stay for the night in
Ellenwood yet travelers needing a place to stay for the night are passing through town on Interstate 675 and Location A Exit 5.
This is the old town of Ellenwood, which is one of
the towns that grew as a result of the Rail Road. See old documents here.
According to an old news paper article on Ellenwood, the
town was named by a soldier returning from war - for a girl named Ellen.
The local legend based on this article, says that a young man going off to war asked two sisters if they would give him a kiss for luck. The first sister
wouldn't but the second sister, Ellen, would.
And so after returning from war, the soldier, now a experienced
and self-made man of importance, named the town after Ellen, possibly believing that she had granted him the luck to live
through the war and return home safely.
The Old Bank of Ellenwood is right next door. It has
a bay where it is said that horse drawn wagons containing money and gold shipments for the bank, were pulled into the
bay and stored in a vault! The vault has concrete walls surrounding it that are said to be "three feet thick".
The concrete walls contain Rail Road Tracks as support,
likely from the rail road that runs beside the building.
These tracks seem to be not only used to reinforce the massive
concrete walls but may even be forming an impenetrable cage as the vault!!!
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