The entrance gate to the Chunnenuggee Public Garden stood within this 90 by 120 foot strip. The Chunneneggee Ridge Horticultural Society, organized on March 6, 1847, established the garden that same year and is now known as the Chunnenuggee Public Garden Club, which claims to be the oldest continuously existing garden club in the nation. The society held an annual Chunnenuggee May Fair between 1848 and 1860, until the War Between the States interrupted it. A circular garden house, summer houses, and a "Lover's Knot," a maze of tall flowering shrubbery, were once part of five acres planted with rare fruits, flowers, and shrubberies that drew visitors from throughout the South to the fair. In 1980, the Bullock County Historical Society revived the fair in Union Springs as the Chunnenuggee Fair. Across the road from the garden site stands the old Powell home, known as Old Field. Dr. Norborne Berkley Powell, who deeded the garden land for $1.00, came from Virginia to Georgia and then to Alabama in 1838. He bought several thousand acres that had originally been occupied by Creek Indians, who called the area Tcha-Na-Naghi, meaning "long,high ridge." Slave carpenters and bricklayers from his plantation built his home from natural resources in the area. Completed in 1844 in the Greek Revival style on the site of a former Indian war council lodge, the house became linked to a local marvel when lightning during a storm imprinted Dr. Powell's likeness on a window pane. Author Augusta Wilson dramatized the event in the novel At the Mercy of Tiberius, in which lightning photography solved a mystery, and the glass pane is preserved in the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery.