Historic Crazy Quilt

Historic Crazy Quilt. On the Quilt Trail. , Quilter: Unknown , Sponsor: Judy Goosen and Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail , Site: Judge Mauldin's office at the Hagood-Mauldin House, Judy Goosen purchased this crazy quilt years ago from Sandy Henderson, a friend with an excellent “eye,” in Atlanta, Georgia, little did she think it would someday be reproduced as a barn quilt in Pickens, South Carolina. Judy moved to the Cliffs subdivision in northern Pickens County a few years ago and when she discovered the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail, she thought it would be a great way to memorialize her quilt, which was showing signs of age. The Pickens studio crew started looking for an appropriate site for the project. Ken Nabors and Wayne Kelly of the Pickens Historical Society identified the perfect location on the Judge's Quarters of the Hagood-Mauldin House overlooking Legacy Square in downtown Pickens. An 8X8 size was suggested, and the UHQT funded half the project to supplement Judy's contribution. , When Pickens District was divided into Oconee and Pickens Counties in 1868, the Hagood-Mauldin House was disassembled, each board and beam carefully numbered, and it was loaded onto wagons, moved from the original county seat of Pickens Court House and reconstructed at its present site in the “new” town of Pickens. Later, Judge Thomas J. Mauldin made additions to the house and added, just to the south of the house, a smaller Classical Revival style building, (now known as the Judge's Quarters), that he used as a law office. This was built in 1904, near the time our unknown quilter was diligently embroidering her many quilt pieces together! , According to quilt historian, Laurel Horton, while this quilt of unknown origin, is most likely from late 19th or early 20th century, it includes, in addition to a variety of embroidery stitches and symbolic silhouettes, velour flowers, painted transfers, silk, velvet and taffeta fabrics. Sandy Henderson, a friend from whom Judy bought the quilt, says, “I bought it in a coal mining town in Madisonville, Kentucky from my friend Gigi Kesterson. Her business, Kesterson's Antiques is in a building that was her parents' neighborhood grocery store for many years. Lots of children bought candy there, remember those little grocery stores?” , Judy's historic crazy quilt is the second block to grace the Hagood-Mauldin site, see also the Carpenter's Wheel, #140 on the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail. Explore the Pickens County Historical website to learn more about Judge Mauldin and his wife, “Miss Queen” Hagood, who inherited the house from her father, James Earle.