Last Updated:  6/9/2007

"For two hundred years, the Duke family had the whiskey craft.  The government took that away from us.  Then we had the land--and the depression took that.  Now, all the Duke family has left is what it started with, and that's family..."

    The central part of the house is a log cabin, and is the only part still standing.  The cabin had been covered with siding and expanded with additions on both sides.

    Although formal street addresses had been in place for a few years at this point, Ol' Jesse may have been among those long-time residents who stubbornly continued to use their old rural route designations -- in this case, Rt 2, Loganville.

    The gentleman who owned the property at the time explained that he was approached in the summer of 1978 by a Warner Brothers representative who apparently was dispatched to search the area for a house and land that were suitable for use on the program.

    The moonshine still seen in the fifth episode was set up in the woods behind the house.