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Dr. Chapmon Powell, a pioneer physician in DeKalb County, built this log cabin on the Shallow Ford Indian Trail near the town of Decatur in 1826. He often gave medical aid to Cherokee Indians still roaming the country between the shallow ford on the Chattahoochee River and Stone Mountain, and they called his pioneer cabin "Medicine House." The cabin was later given to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association by Lanier R. Billups, a great-grandson of Dr. Powell, in 1962.
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