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Continuation of 1800 Census for Pendleton District, South Carolina. Examines people who followed the Great Road from Virginia and North Carolina s Yadkin country into South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. Contains the 1820 census also. S9030HB - $18.00
Published in 1974, Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is a chronicle of sixty years of change in Clarke County and the city of Athens. In 1801, Clarke County, newly created from Jackson County, was virtually all Georgia farmland, and Athens was a portion of land set aside for the establishment of a state university. In those first years of the century, the university began with thirty or forty students. They received instruction from Josiah Meigs--president and faculty of the university--in a twenty-by-twenty-foot log cabin. By 1846, the population of the county was over four thousand, and the area prospered. Cotton mills dotted the banks of the Oconee River, the Georgia Railroad c...
These old newspapers were fascinating as well as being a valuable source of genealogical and historical information about olden days and the families of Jackson and surrounded counties. A variety of newspaper clippings are included, such as marriage notices, deaths and obits, murders, births, fights and shootings, legal notices, etc. Many of the articles merely gave an insight as to the characteristics, personalities, and occupations of various persons, their illnesses or accidents. Quite a few of the articles were about African Americans, and a few political notices were included. By no means was The Jackson Herald a dull newspaper! There was always something of interest going on in Jackson...
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