A brick storefront built to keep freight dry, not humidity out
Fortson's general store and post office moved into a brick building beside the Columbus and Rome Railroad tracks in 1904, fifteen miles northeast of Columbus, on land the Almond-Fortson family had settled in the 1830s. Brick construction from that era handles humidity differently than the wood-frame homes built around it in the same period.
What mixed brick-and-wood construction means for mold risk
Fortson's building stock mixes early wood-frame settlement construction with brick storefronts from the 1904 rail-stop era, and each material traps or releases humidity at a different rate in Georgia's humid subtropical climate. A mold assessment should account for which type of construction a given property actually is before recommending a fix.
Mold paths for a Fortson property
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The same humid air that reaches Columbus's mill district
Fortson sits close enough to Columbus, roughly 15 miles northeast, to share the same 69-to-76-percent relative humidity that the city's historic cotton-mill district has always contended with — worse from May through August in both places.