RoseTrail Places

This is the Sloan house. This house was located on Sloan drive right before you get to the private gate. This house burned on 9/11/2001 but some of the old oak trees are still present were the house once stood. I was born and raised in this house and have a lot of great memories from living in it. A lot of my friends were afraid to spend the night with me because they though it was haunted. I'm sure I helped instigate those haunted stories. 

This was originally The Cluade Buchanan home. Norman and Jackie Bryant remodeled it and have lived there since I was a teenager.

The old one room school house use to be located to the left and was used as a chicken house.

1850 – The first Methodist Church was established in Riverton and was made out of logs. It was relocated in 1892 to where the water’s edge is today. It was eventually moved again in 1951 to where it currently sits along the side of Rose Trail. The bell inside came from England. The bell was originally in the Baptist Church that Mr. Alfred Parrish created. The benches inside were made by the Bryant family. I grew up going to this church. It was usually only about 10 of us present for service. The Church has not been in service for many years now.

1860 – The Baptist Church was established in Riverton. It stood at the water’s edge at the present day Pickwick Lake. 

1892 – Mr. Parish donated land and on which a white frame Baptists church was built. The bell in it came from England. That church has recently been remodeled and sits across from the Riverton Cemetery. The bell was later moved in 1951 to the white brick Methodist church that stands today.

This church was overgrown with trees and bushes when I was a kid. It had no windows in it. I used it for a clubhouse. I hunted squirrels out of it and use to skateboard inside of it. The locals have done a great job making this a great church. Church service is held on a weekly basis.

This is what the church looked like before it was remodeled. Many of the locals, including myself, use to skate inside of it. I've even hunted squirrels out of it.

The Riverton Rose Trail Fire Department is not a historic place but it has brought a lot of great things to the community. Ken Blackstock was the original fire chief and would give you the shirt off his back. Chuck Lansdell is the current Fire Chief and also the preacher at the Riverton Church

This was where Lillian Hardeman and Oscar (Bill) Hays lived.

This was orginally Robert Blankenship's home.

From Hugh W. Bryant - "I remember a one room school at Riverton. my oldest sister (Doyle Bryant Beavers,b1900) went there. I don't remember where it was located originally, but has been moved behind Bryants house at Riverton and being used for a chicken house.

WILLIAM BISHOP BRYANT home in Riverton - gone now, but was located on the right after passing the Buchanan home, and just after going around the tight curve.

William Bryant helped build the William Buchanan home, so Mr. Buchanan deeded Wm Bryant some land to build himself a home.

Bryant also made the pews that are in the old Methodist Church across the road.

After the Civil War, the name Colbert Ferry was replaced by Georgetown or

George Town Ferry/George Town Landing, although records and local tradition

are silent on reason for the name change.

Riverton Drag line in 1904

A photo of a house taken in Riverton in 1937 before it was flooded in 1938. This home belonged to the Barnett family. 

This was the home behind the old Waddell store.

This was the Confederate Battery located on top of one of the 3 Indian mounds at Riverton. This is under the water now. During the low water you can still almost see the top of one of the old Indian mounds.