This Bent Tree fact sheet is from 2011. Other than a few slight changes (i.e. restaurant name change, different email bulletins, additions of bocce and pickleball, transponders instead of barcodes), it is still accurate and is a handy reference.
2011 Bent Tree Fact Sheet (click image to link to pdf)
923 Chestnut Cove Trail in Bent Tree just hit the market with an asking price of $283,900. Click here to link to a website that has just about anything you could want to know about the 4 bed, 3 bath home. The views are amazing. Click the listing photo below to link to a video tour.
Listing photo for 923 Chestnut Cove Trail in Bent Tree (click to link to video)
July 5, 2019 – Hole 9, Bent Tree Golf Course
Back in 1971, there was an article in The Atlanta Constitution about Bent Tree’s golf course, which was under construction at the time. The article mentioned the “forest-framed fairways”; that is still a perfect descriptor today.
July 5, 2019 – Hole 14, Bent Tree Golf Course (click image to zoom)
The BT staff sure know how to put on a good show.
July 4, 2019 – In Bent Tree
July 4, 2019 – Fireworks finale
July 4, 2018 – Fireworks in Bent Tree
Here are some pictures from last year’s fireworks show in Bent Tree. Click thumbnails from larger images.
Click here to link to a front-page article, about Bent Tree’s fire department, in this week’s Pickens Progress. It gives details about the improved ISO rating (from 4 to 2, the lower the better) that will go into effect on October 1st. According to the newspaper article, “This puts Bent Tree in the top four percent of fire departments in the United States and makes them the top-rated department in Pickens County.”
Rumor has it that a candidate for the BTCI Board of Directors “has to be nominated by a board member”. That is not true.
The actual requirements, as published in the Echo, are shown below. There is a requirement to have letters of recommendation from two other BTCI members in good standing, but that simply means letters from any property owners who are members of BTCI. The deadline to meet the requirements to be a candidate for this year’s election has passed, but it’s never too early to start thinking about next year.
from May Echo, pg 7
June 21, 2019 – Blue Heron flying over Lake Tamarack, shortly after takeoff
Click here to link to the listing information, or click the listing photo below to link to a video tour, for 34 Tamarack Point in Bent Tree. The asking price for the 3 bed, 3 bath lake front home is $449,900.
AGENT’S LISTING PHOTO – 34 Tamarack Point in Bent Tree (click photo to link to video tour)
The arrival of portajohns, scattered around Lake Tamarack, is a sure sign that it’s time for Youth Fest in Bent Tree, along with the accompanying short-term population surge.
June 28, 2019 – spillway in Bent Tree