Possum Poke is a historic hunting retreat outside
Poulan, Georgia
Poulan is a city in Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 851 at the 2010 and 765 (2019) census.
Poulan is part of the Albany, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Poulan is notable for its police department's speed trap ta ...
, United States, and for years was the winter home of
Chase Osborn, a former
governor of Michigan
The governor of Michigan is the head of state, head of government, and chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the stat ...
, author and adventurer.
[https://www.msu.edu/~dowj/osborn/pp_pics2.htm][Osborn, Dynamic Ex-Governor, Dies]
The Owosso Argus-Press - Apr 12, 1949[Possum Poke Dedication Scheduled for Saturday]
April 25, 1974 Waycross-Journal Herald It was a hunting camp.
[Attractions]
Sylvester-Worth County Chamber of Commerce The two main buildings are "Big Poke" and "Little Poke". The "Big Poke" home was owned by Osborn, and he died there in 1949. Stone monuments on the grounds commemorate him and his longtime confidante and second wife Stellanova Osborn, who died in 1988.[ Though these monuments are sometimes mistaken for the couple's gravestones, the Osborns are actually buried in Michigan.
The site is located on Possum Lane off ]U.S. Route 82
U.S. Route 82 (US 82) is an east–west United States highway in the Southern United States. Created on July 1, 1931 across central Mississippi and southern Arkansas, US 82 eventually became a 1,625-mile (2,615 km) route extending from ...
. It is managed by the Sylvester
Sylvester or Silvester is a name derived from the Latin adjective ''silvestris'' meaning "wooded" or "wild", which derives from the noun ''silva'' meaning "woodland". Classical Latin spells this with ''i''. In Classical Latin, ''y'' represented a ...
- Worth County Chamber of Commerce, is open to the public, and is rentable for special events.[
On April 25, 1974, three marker monuments, two boulders from the Hiawatha National Forest on Lake Superior and a flagpole were dedicated at the site.][ It was added to the ]National Register of Historic Places
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on August 26, 1982. The ownership of Possum Poke transferred from Worth County to the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in March 1999. At the time of the transfer, the condition of the house was deteriorating.[
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See also
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References
Further reading
*''A tale of Possum Poke in Possum Lane'' by Stellanova Osborn, The Science Press Printing Co. 1946
External links
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Tourist attractions in Worth County, Georgia
Houses in Worth County, Georgia
National Register of Historic Places in Worth County, Georgia
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