The Cedars: Limited and numbered prints now available

One-hundred signed and numbered prints of the watercolor of The Cedars (Cates-Gaither House) of Fulton, Mississippi, are now available. This limited-edition offering of The Cedars is to benefit local efforts to preserve, relocate, and renovate Fulton's second oldest surviving residence.

Artist Teb Thornton of Fulton hand-signed, numbered,

and titled each of the 100 copies on October 10, 2009.

Thornton donated his watercolor of The Cedars to Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage, a local action group whose first project is to save The Cedars (Cates-Gaither House).

Copies of The Cedars limited-edition print lined up for the ink

to dry from the signing and numbering.

All of the proceeds from the sale of the prints will go towards the preservation, relocation, and renovation of The Cedars, a landmark Fulton residence built by the Cates family and most recently occupied by the Gaither family.

The cost is $100 per print --- make your tax-deductible check payable to:

Create--Gaither House Project Fund and indicate on the check that it is for a limited edition print.

See the left-side bar on this page for ordering information. Order today to insure that you acquire one of the limited signed and numbered prints. Only 100 copies are being offered.

WTVA-TV news coverage of The Cedars, 9-22-09

With permission of WTVA-TV, Tupelo, Mississippi, a kinescope of a news report by David Iversen about The Cedars (and of the efforts to preserve by it) is presented below. Click the start button to view. The footage originally aired on WTVA-TV 10 o'clock News, September 22, 2009.

Cates-Gaither House & Outbuildings: 1929 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map

Old maps and plat drawings of lots can often yield much information about landmark property. Such is the case with The Cedars in Fulton, Mississippi. This almost 150-year old property is shown on the Fulton 1929 Sanborn Fire Insurance map.

The map image below is courtesy of Itawamba County historian and writer Bob Franks of Mantachie. Franks sent the image and information used to produce the second image below to identify the structures at the Cates-Gaither House, The Cedars.

Click images for a larger view

The Cedars (Cates-Gaither House) is located facing Main Street in Block 140 (structures just to the right of "140" on the map above).

The 1929 configuration of the house and grounds are shown above. Enclosed structures are identified in solid lines; porches and covered areas are shown with dashed lines.

Thanks to Bob Franks for providing this most valuable piece of information about The Cedars.

Your help is needed in the preservation effort of the Cates-Gaither House. Join Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage in this undertaking.