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Doran’s Cove: Cultural Memory in the Landscape
By Rebecca Fowler
Doran’s Cove: Cultural Memory in the Landscape
By Rebecca Fowler
Doran’s Cove, AlabamaDoran’s Cove, Alabama
Doran’s Cove
Doran’s Cove
Vernacular Architecture:Vernacular Architecture:
1. Buildings derived from folk designs and techniques that employ local resources, and whose styles are passed down through cultural memory.
2. The cultural framework used to chronicle and understand these buildings.
1. Buildings derived from folk designs and techniques that employ local resources, and whose styles are passed down through cultural memory.
2. The cultural framework used to chronicle and understand these buildings.
Source Areas and Routes of Diffusion Source Areas and
Routes of Diffusion
Modified from Fred Kniffen, Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion, 1965Modified from Fred Kniffen, Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion, 1965
Log Notching StylesLog Notching Styles
Full dovetail notchFull dovetail notchV notchV notch Half dovetail notchHalf dovetail notchSaddle notchSaddle notch
Traditional I-houseTraditional I-house
Alabama state map, c. 1882Alabama state map, c. 1882
Orme Depot, now abandonedOrme Depot, now abandoned
Payne Family CabinPayne Family Cabin
Photograph by Luke Armistead
Vernacular Classification System:Vernacular Classification System:
B: Oh. I don’t know. I know something that’s happening now. Tommy Rowark’s building a new log house over there on his place. That’s how Toby got his back hurt, he was over there helping him.
C: Where’s he building it? B: Back in that Smith place. C: Oh back in there. B: You remember. Where all them old houses used to be?C: Yeah.
B: Well they’re building a two-story log house over there.
Builder/owner Building material
Size (number of stories) Kinship association with the land
Payne SmokehousePayne Smokehouse
Photograph by Gerald Smith
Newton/Doran House, c. 1956Newton/Doran House, c. 1956
Photograph courtesy of Cynthia Newton
Payne Cabin, untouched since 1824
Payne Cabin, untouched since 1824
Photograph by Gerald Smith
Jolly Cabin, in restoration process
Jolly Cabin, in restoration process
Photograph by Luke Armistead
Doran’s Cove ChurchDoran’s Cove Church
Changes in the CoveChanges in the Cove
Demographic: Loss of local families and increasing population of newcomers
Topographical: Disuse of railroad and abandonment of stage coach road coupled with construction of highways and increase in motorized vehicles
Industrialization: Disintegration of folk buildings and replacement of vernacular architecture with modern structures
Demographic: Loss of local families and increasing population of newcomers
Topographical: Disuse of railroad and abandonment of stage coach road coupled with construction of highways and increase in motorized vehicles
Industrialization: Disintegration of folk buildings and replacement of vernacular architecture with modern structures
“Uh, let’s see going out of here you’ll pass my son’s house is on your left going out and the trailer’s on the curve there, then you go around that curve there’s a big new house been built out here on the field, that’s a Grider’s there. Then you go down and Toby Gri - uh, Toby Samples lives in a little house up on a hill and then out in front of him’s a new house been built which is Allan Raulston, and then is Allan – uh, Randall Whyler’s house, and then that little ol’ barn sitting out there just in front of it, and then Jean’s is that house right on around there.”
- Edna Payne
“Uh, let’s see going out of here you’ll pass my son’s house is on your left going out and the trailer’s on the curve there, then you go around that curve there’s a big new house been built out here on the field, that’s a Grider’s there. Then you go down and Toby Gri - uh, Toby Samples lives in a little house up on a hill and then out in front of him’s a new house been built which is Allan Raulston, and then is Allan – uh, Randall Whyler’s house, and then that little ol’ barn sitting out there just in front of it, and then Jean’s is that house right on around there.”
- Edna Payne
County Road sign, indicating kinship association between Ridley and the landCounty Road sign, indicating kinship association between Ridley and the land
Cultural Memory:Cultural Memory:
Consists of certain kinds of memories that are not a part of history and are distinct from personal or individual memories. These memories are often produced and reproduced through cultural forms.
Consists of certain kinds of memories that are not a part of history and are distinct from personal or individual memories. These memories are often produced and reproduced through cultural forms.
Newton/Doran HouseNewton/Doran House
The End The End
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Major James Doran’s tombstone, Doran’s Cove Cemetery