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Georgia Natural Wonder #152 – Decatur County (Part 2)

Well we went overboard on the Natural Wonder of Climax Cavern in our last post for Georgia Natural Wonder #152. We had over 100 images. We wanted to do a tangent on Decatur County, but found so much information, that it should stand alone as a tangent history post, so here we go.



Tangent Decatur County Georgia

Decatur County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,842. The county seat is Bainbridge.


A parade passes down Broad Street in Bainbridge for the Decatur County centennial celebration in 1923.

Decatur County comprises the Bainbridge, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Tallahassee-Bainbridge, FL-GA Combined Statistical Area.


This bookmobile in Bainbridge, pictured ca. 1936-38, was reportedly the first one in Decatur County. "Decatur County Traveling Library" is painted on the door of the vehicle.

History

Spanish explorers had visited the area as early as 1540, and settlements were founded shortly thereafter.



The Battle of Flint River was a failed attack by Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces against Creek Indians in October 1702 in what is now the state of Georgia. The Creeks, assisted by a small number of Englishmen led by trader Anthony Dodsworth, ambushed the invaders on the banks of the Flint River.



Don Francisco Romo de Uriza, a Spanish captain, gathered 800 Apalachee and Spanish from the surrounding mission communities.Dodsworth assembled his force, which numbered about 500, with the blessing of the Apalachicola chief Emperor Brim. The two forces met near the Flint River when the Apalachee made a predawn attack on the Apalachicola camp. Anticipating the possibility of this sort of attack, Dodsworth and the Apalachicolas had arranged their blankets to appear occupied and concealed themselves near the camp. When the Apalachee attacked the false camp, the Apalachicolas fell upon them. With the superiority of their weapons, the British-supported Indians routed the Spanish force. Uriza was reported to have only 300 men when he returned to Apalachee.


Map shows area of battle.


On the Decatur County shore of Lake Seminole, you will find a bluff park with signs all about the history, now underwater.



Fort Scott was built in 1816 on the west bank of the Flint River, where it joins the Chattahoochee River to form the Apalachicola, in the southwest corner of Georgia.



The need for a fort became evident during the War of 1812, when the British identified this undefended United States border, and in 1814 built two forts on the Apalachicola River, into which the Flint River flows.


This 32 pound cannon was one of three obtained from Fort Clinch, Florida, to mark the site of Fort Scott. (The other two marked Fort Hughes and Camp Recovery.)

When withdrawing in 1815, the British deliberately left what was soon called the Negro Fort, with all its weapons and ordnance, in the hands of those disciplined, paid-off Corps of Colonial Marines black troops who chose to remain. Surrounding it was a sizeable community of runaway slaves, Red Stick Creeks, some forced out of the Mississippi Territory and Georgia, and the occasional white trader. The existence of a Negro Fort, as the U.S. Army called it, was anathema to Georgia plantation owners, who feared this threat to their slaves. It was a known safe destination for runaway slaves from as far as Virginia and Tennessee. Raids from lawless Spanish Florida into U.S. territory, calling on slaves to follow them to freedom, are well documented.


When the creation of the Jim Woodruff Reservoir inundated the site of Fort Scott, the cannon was moved to the J.D. Chason Memorial Park in Bainbridge, the site of Fort Hughes.

U.S. forces attacked and destroyed the fort in the Battle of Negro Fort (1816), sometimes called the opening battle of the Seminole Wars. Once Negro Fort was destroyed in August, 1816, there seemed to be no more need for Fort Scott, and it was abandoned in November of 1816. Red Stick warriors soon burned the fort to the ground. U.S. troops rebuilt it because raids were regularly launched into Georgia from Spanish Florida by Red Sticks, other Seminoles, and maroons (escaped slaves). "Unlike smaller posts such as Fort Gaines and Fort Hughes, the fort was a massive affair designed to house a full brigade of U.S. troops,"



Fort Scott was the base for the Battle of Fowltown, another candidate for the first battle of the Seminole Wars. The Red Stick Chief Neamathla maintained that the land to the south of the river belonged to the Red Stick Mikasuki Creeks, who had not been party to the Treaty of Fort Jackson, ceding this land to the United States, and did not feel bound by it. In fact, they took the Flint River as separating the United States from Spanish Florida.



The Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, ordered General Edmund P. Gaines to remove Neamathla and his followers from this land.


Neamathla and Gaines.

He sent a force of 250 men to destroy Fowltown and capture Neamathla. The first attempt was beaten off by the Mikasukis. A few days later, an attack by a larger U.S. party forced the Mikasuki to retreat into the surrounding swamp, abandon this land, and reestablish themselves further south. Neamathla was not captured. Some historians date the start of the war to this attack on Fowltown. (The Indian response was the Scott Massacre)


Forcing the Mikasuki south to Florida.

The Scott Massacre, coming after the recent (1813) Fort Mims massacre, was a factor convincing the United States that the Creeks must be eliminated, beginning the Seminole Wars. It took place at the end of November, 1817. Several hundred Creek warriors known as Red Sticks, led by Homathlimico, with Josiah Francis in the rear, attacked a vessel commanded by Lieutenant Richard W. Scott. The boat was heading up the Apalachicola River to supply Camp Crawford on the Flint River in southwest Georgia; the attack was at the confluence of the rivers (Nicolls' Outpost). Besides the supplies, the boat carried 20 sick soldiers, seven women, four children, and a guard of 20 armed soldiers. After a bloody massacre and scalping, only seven survived, one woman, and six soldiers who escaped by jumping into the river and swimming to the opposite shore, where friendly Creeks helped them reach safety at Camp Crawford on December 2, 1817.


Fort Mims.

The children were killed by having their heads bashed against the sides of the boat. Scott was killed by having splinters of fatwood driven into his body and set afire, "an excruciating form of execution that had its roots deep in the ancient traditions of the Creek Indians"


Fort Mims reenactment.

In 1817, during the First Seminole War, Fort Hughes was built on the south side of the Flint River in what is today Bainbridge, Georgia. It was on a bluff at the west end of today's J. D. Chason Memorial Park.



The Fort consisted of a stockade 90 feet square, with two blockhouses at opposite corners, each 20 feet square. It was named for only American killed at the Battle of Fowltown, the young fifer Aaron Hughes, whose grave, while not located, is believed to be somewhere at the site. The fort site was chosen by Lt. Col. Arbuckle, who supervised its building, which, using 300 men, took three days. 40 men were left stationed at Fort Hughes after its construction was finished about November 27. A group of at least 32 Red Stick Creeks was led against it by Peter Cook, clerk at Arbuthnot's store, and former Colonial Marines lieutenant Robert Ambrister, and attacked it unsuccessfully sometime between December 7 and 15. The Fort resisted the attack successfully. However, after the Scott Massacre of November 30, and the impossibility of resupplying the fort given the siege that began at the Battle of Ocheesee on December 15, Arbuckle ordered Fort Hughes evacuated and abandoned on December 18, 1817. It was never reoccupied.



Camp Recovery was a temporary hospital camp established by U.S. Army surgeons during a malaria outbreak at nearby Fort Scott.



The site of the camp is in Decatur County near the crossroads community of Recovery, Georgia. In 1820,  769 of the 780 officers and men at the fort were sick with fever. Thirty-two died in a single three month period.So far as is known, Camp Recovery was never occupied again after those deadly months in 1820.



On October 13, 1882, the Secretary of War authorized the placement of permanent monuments on the sites of Camp Recovery, Fort Scott and Fort Hughes. Made by setting 32-pounder cannon brought from Fort Clinch in Florida upright into blocks of granite from Stone Mountain, the three monuments were erected in 1883.





The county was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 8, 1823, from a portion of Early County. Three other counties were created from land that was originally part of Decatur County.



In 1825, a portion of Decatur was used in the creation of Thomas County. In 1905, another portion of Decatur was used in the creation of part of Grady County. In 1920, the western portion of Decatur County was used to form Seminole County in its entirety.



Decatur County was named after Commodore Stephen Decatur. His service in the Navy took him through both Barbary Wars in North Africa, the Quasi-War with France, and the War of 1812 with Britain. He was renowned for his natural ability to lead and for his genuine concern for the seamen under his command. His numerous naval victories against Britain, France and the Barbary states established the United States Navy as a rising power.


Saving the Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur during the Barbary Wars

Decatur's career came to an early end when he was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron. Decatur emerged as a national hero in his own lifetime, becoming the first post-Revolutionary War hero. His name and legacy, like that of John Paul Jones, became identified with the United States Navy.



He may be best remembered for his response to an 1816 toast: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."



At least 46 communities in the United States have been named after Stephen Decatur, including Decatur, Alabama, Decatur, Georgia, Decatur, Illinois, and Decatur, Texas. Seven counties in the United States have been named after Stephen Decatur, including Decatur County, Alabama, Decatur County, Georgia, Decatur County, Indiana, Decatur County, Iowa, Decatur County, Kansas, and Decatur County, Tennessee.

Geography

One of the largest counties in Georgia, Decatur County has a total area of 623 square miles, of which 597 square miles is land and 26 square miles is water.Decatur shares its southern boundary with the Florida state line.


A large tributary of the Flint River, Spring Creek is fed by numerous underground springs in limestone sinks. Archaeologists have found some evidence that native peoples from the Weeden Island era set up campsites at various points along the creek.

The bulk of Decatur County is located in the Lower Flint - Apalachicola - Chattahoochee River Basin.


The steamboat Getrude, laden with barrels of turpentine, passes a crowd on the banks of the Flint River near Bainbridge, 1910.



It was a major steamboat run until 1930.


Steamboats Marker The Flint River and a railroad bridge are in the background. Steamboat "John W. Callahan" on the Flint River at Bainbridge, Georgia

Decatur County sits atop the Floridan aquifer and is bisected by the Flint River.



Lake Seminole, created by the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam at the Florida line built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, forms the southwestern boundary of the county.



The lake is noted for bass fishing and is the site of an annual national tournament.



Jack Wingate's lodge and marina on the lake was made famous in the first Mark Trail comic strip, drawn by cartoonist Ed Dodd. Jack Wingate was widely known as a fishing guide and director of a summer boy's camp for more than 50 years. He even helped Ray Scott found B.A.S.S. by helping him find anglers to fish his very first bass tournament.


Jack and Lodge.

Bainbridge College opened in 1973 and serves one Florida county and eight Georgia counties. The Gilbert H. Gragg–Decatur County Library is the headquarters of the Southwest Georgia Regional Library System and serves Decatur, Miller, and Seminole counties. It also is a subregional library for the blind and physically handicapped for sixteen southwest Georgia counties.



On February 13, 2013, the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia officially announced that Bainbridge College had been converted into a 4-year state college, and its name was officially changed to Bainbridge State College. The college ceased to exist as a separate entity when the consolidation of Bainbridge State College with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College became official December 2017. It is now known as (ABAC at Bainbridge)

Cities

    Attapulgus
    Bainbridge
    Climax

Town

    Brinson

Unincorporated communities

    Amsterdam
    Ausmac
    Blackjack
    Cyrene
    Eldorendo
    Faceville
    Fowlstown
    Hannatown
    Hanover
    Jinks
    Laingkat
    Mount Pleasant
    Otisco
    Parker Courthouse
    Recovery
    Smith's Landing
    Vada

Attapulgus is a city in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 449.



The town's name is an Indian word meaning "Dogwood"; due to the abundance of attapulgite, which makes up the clay soil throughout much of the Southeast, the mineral was named after the town.


C. R. Hatcher Building, Attapulgus. This was once the busiest store in Attapulgus. It’s well-maintained, and the Coca-Cola mural is one of the earliest and nicest I’ve seen in South Georgia.


Attapulgus Methodist Church, 1928. It’s believed that John Slade, a missionary from South Carolina, organized this congregation around 1830 and served as its first pastor. The first building was erected in 1869.  Ground was broken for the present church in 1927 and it was dedicated on 17 April 1928, by Bishop William N. Ainsworth.

Attapulgus was the birthplace of civil rights leader Hosea Williams.



Bainbridge is a city in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. The city is the county seat of Decatur County.[7] As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12,697.

History

The first European settlement in what is today Bainbridge was a trading post set up by James Burges in the late 18th century. From him comes the name Burges's Bluff.



The town was named after U.S. Navy Commodore William Bainbridge. During his long career in the young American Navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is notable for his many victories at sea. He commanded several famous naval ships, including the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). Made from 400 Live Oaks of St. Simon Island.  He saw service in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.  The town was incorporated on December 22, 1829.



Places named after him include Bainbridge Island, Washington, Bainbridge Township, Ohio; Bainbridge, Georgia; Bainbridge, Indiana; Bainbridge, New York.


Ironsides sinks HMS Java.

In 1824, Bainbridge was designated seat of the newly formed Decatur County.



Revolutionary War soldiers settled Bainbridge. A Civil War regiment was mustered. There was some local Civil War manufacturing.



We can't leave history of Bainbridge without mentioning Bainbridge Air Base.



It is now Decatur County Industrial Air Park



On October 10, 2018, Bainbridge was victim to Hurricane Michael. The storm left widespread damage through the city limits, including downed trees, power lines, and structural damage. Many of the residents affected suffered severe damage to their homes.

Arts and culture

Arts

The Firehouse Art Gallery


This Bainbridge building is the only example of Mission architecture in this part of the state.

Annual cultural events

River Town Days is held each year in Bainbridge the second weekend of March.



TheDecatur County Fall Festival and Fair is an annual events.



National Register of Historic Places

The Bainbridge Commercial Historic District is a historic district comprising the downtown business area of Bainbridge, Georgia.



It includes Bainbridge's original courthouse square, now Willis Park, and 56 contributing buildings in a 10-acre area roughly bounded by Water, Clark, Troupe, West, Broughton, & Crawford streets. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.



In 1987, the district had 56 contributing buildings and one contributing site (Willis Park), plus 24 non-contributing buildings.


Willis Park


This historic property faces Willis Park and at its core is the footprint of The Sharon House, a hotel built in the 1860s. Significant remodeling and expansion took place in 1901 and it became the Bon Air Hotel.

The Bainbridge Residential Historic District in Bainbridge, Georgia is an irregularly shaped 125 acres historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It then had 197 contributing buildings and 76 non-contributing ones. The overall plan of the neighborhood was also deemed to be a contributing resource.



The district encompasses the largest and only intact historic neighborhood in Bainbridge. It includes houses of numerous 19th-and early 20th-century house styles and sizes.



Two antebellum houses, both built around 1850, are included in the district: I can't find images or info on either.

The Farrar House at 501 East Evans Street, a two-story simplified Greek Revival style house, with a monumental two-story entry porch.
The Barrel House at 627 East Planter Street, a one-story house with square pillars and pilasters on its inset front verandah.

We did find this antebellum home.


Wimberly-Roberts House, 1840, Bainbridge

Most houses in the area were built between 1880 and 1930, in subdivisions that merged.



The NRHP nomination notes that "One of the architecturally interesting streets in the southwest section of the district is Washington Street, which contains a large collection of pyramidal roofed houses. These one-story frame structures are dominated by their seemingly oversized roofs, with ornamentation limited to turned columns on the front porches.



This house type can also be found in the northeast part of the district, on Georgia Avenue, historically a black neighborhood."



The J. W. Callahan House is a Classical Revival-style house in Bainbridge, Georgia that was built in c. 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It was home of John Wesley Callahan, steamship businessman. It is a two-and-a-half-story house with a dormered hipped roof supported by a monumental portico with four Corinthian columns. It has a curved one-story porch around three sides of the house.


It looks like a steamship.

The Curry Hill Plantation near Bainbridge, Georgia is a plantation begun in 1842 by Duncan Curry, Jr., son of a state representative and senator and one of the earliest settlers of this section of Georgia, established a plantation in 1842 on property that had included an important early stagecoach stop between Thomasville and Bainbridge. As the plantation expanded to eventually cover several thousand acres, the family lived in a log house next to the old stagecoach house. The present house was built in the mid-1850s. It also served as a de facto neighborhood school.



In addition to their farming and entrepreneurial activities, Duncan, with his brother Calvin, built the first Presbyterian church in this section around this time. At the outset of the Civil War, Curry rallied a group of local men for the cause. They became Company F, Fiftieth Georgia Regiment, under Curry’s command. Injured in Maryland, Curry returned to the plantation and helped secure supplies for the local effort. His son, Perry, was killed in the war.



Decatur County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Bainbridge, Georgia, the county seat of Decatur County, Georgia. The Neoclassical building was designed by Alexander Blair III and built in 1902. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. It is located on West Street and Water Street.


The neoclassical revival-style Decatur County courthouse was built in Bainbridge, the county seat, in 1902.

The [b]First African Missionary Baptist Church[/b] in Bainbridge, Georgia, is a Romanesque Revival-style church built during 1904–1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.



It is a brick church. It was designed by Thomas H. Bynes, a member of the congregation who was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, and is unusual as an "outstanding example of African-American church architecture in Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century", at a time when most churches founded and built by blacks were usually "plain, one-room frame structures, rectangular in shape with gable roofs" with "little or no ornamentation or architectural detailing." The interior has 12 curved rows of pews arranged in a semi-circle

Notable People of Bainbridge

James Butler, NFL player.


Tech man, Super Bowl ring with Giants 2007.

Marvin Griffin, former Georgia governor.


72nd Governor.

Miriam Hopkins, Academy Award-nominated film actress.


Oscar-nominated performance in Becky Sharp.

Daniel Lancaster, Lead singer of Stages And Stereos.


Stages And Stereos.

Jason Lancaster, Singer and guitarist of Mayday Parade, singer of Go Radio, and solo career.


Mayday Parade

David Ross, MLB catcher, two-time World Series champion, Dancing with the Stars contestant.


Auburn Man. Ross won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2013 and the Chicago Cubs in 2016. Oldest man to hit home run in World Series history.

J. D. Salinger, novelist, stationed at the Bainbridge Army Air Base from August 1942 to May 1943 and wrote several short stories during his stay.


JD wrote pretty well known book.

Kirby Smart, head football coach for the University of Georgia.



Travis Smith, former drummer of Trivium.



Young Stribling, professional heavyweight boxer.



Had a career record of 221 wins that included 125 knockouts (a record later broken by Archie Moore) and an armory of punches, including the Stribling Shift. He was defeated in several world title bouts, most notably against the German fighter Max Schmeling in 1931. He was on the way to visit his wife and baby son in a Macon hospital when a car hit his motorcycle.


Young Stribling (left), a heavyweight boxer, trains in North Carolina with Jack Dempsey, circa 1930. Stribling was well known across his home state of Georgia for his civic involvement, which included service as a lieutenant in the Army Air Reserve Corps.

Climax is a city in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. The town was named "Climax" because it is located at the highest point of the railroad between Savannah, Georgia, and the Chattahoochee River. The population was 280 at the 2010 census.



History

Climax was platted in 1833, and named for its lofty elevation. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1905 as the "Town of Climax", with the municipal corporate limits extending in a one-half mile radius from the town's central water well.


Allen Mercantile Company is a historic retail trade building at 102 Main Street in Climax, Georgia.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It was then one of only two surviving historic commercial buildings on Main Street.The historic Department Store building was constructed in 1903 in a Victorian architecture and Italianate architecture style.


Other place in Climax.

Swine Time Festival

Climax's annual Swine Time festival is held on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving. The event is attended by 35,000 people annually, a large number in light of Climax's sub-300 population. Contests and events include best-dressed pig, corn shucking, hog calling, eating chitterlings, pig racing, syrup making, baby crawling, and the great greased pig chase.



The festival is kicked off with a parade down Main Street that leads up to the event grounds. There is also a beauty contest for different age groups where the winner is crowned Miss and Little Miss Swine Time.

Brinson is a town in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 215.



History

Variant names were "Mount Zion and "Spring Creek. Simeon Brinson, an early postmaster and first mayor, gave the town its present name. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place as the "Town of Brinson" in 1907.



Agriculture predominates in the area. According to one compilation, three of the top ten recipients of U.S. farm subsidies are in Brinson.



The Brinson Family Historic District in Brinson, Georgia is a 14-acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has six contributing buildings and two other contributing structures.


It includes the 1901-built Brinson Methodist Church, its parsonage, and four other houses, all associated with the Brinson family. The origins of this church can be traced to the Spring Creek Mission, organized in 1867. A crude log building served as the first church.  In 1871, the congregation adopted the name of Mt. Zion and a second structure of frame construction was built. The third and present building dates to 1901.

The Brinson Family Historic District also includes the Homer Hodges Brinson House, the Simeon Brinson House, the O'Neal-Brinson House and the Brinson-Russell House.


Homer Hodges Brinson House, 1907, Brinson. Built by the second son of Simeon Brinson, Homer Hodges Brinson (1878-1944), this house was extensively remodeled around 1919 in the eclectic style typical of the era. Elements of the Craftsman,American Foursquare and Prairie styles are the most predominant influences.


Simeon Brinson House, 1893, Brinson. This grand Victorian was built by Simeon Brinson (1847-1918), founder of the town that bears his name. In the 1870s, Simeon bought large tracts of land in the area and surveyed the area for a town in 1889, after the coming of the railroad. He served as a postmaster in the town’s early days and after it was incorporated in 1907 was its first mayor. The family owned the only bank in the town, as well as a cotton warehouse.



The district is also notable for its landscape architecture, in particular "for the extensively and historically landscaped yards of the individual houses in the district and for its historic pecan grove and street trees."

Amsterdam is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.



We also found this historical marker in Amsterdam.



History

Amsterdam had its start when the railroad was extended to that point. The community was named after Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. A post office called Amsterdam was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1959.



Ausmac is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. No images found.

History

The name "Ausmac" is an amalgamation of Ausley and McCaskill, two businessmen in the local turpentine industry.

Cyrene is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.



History

A post office called Cyrene was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1938.



The community was named after the ancient city of Cyrenaica.



Eldorendo is an unincorporated community located in Decatur County in southwest Georgia, United States.

History

The community was named for Eldorendo Virginia Higgs Brown (1835–1904). She and her husband, S. Morgan Brown (1826–1914), moved to the area in the 1870s. When the new railroad came through the S. Morgan Brown plantation a post office was established. Eldorendo Brown decided to apply for the position of Postmistress. When filling out the required government forms, she signed her name "Eldorendo Virginia Brown". The notice of her appointment came along with a statement that the postal officials discovered the town had no name and they had selected the name "Eldorendo" from the first given name on her paperwork. Eldorendo Brown and her husband are both buried in the Eldorendo Baptist Church Cemetery. After Eldorendo died, her daughter, Ona Brown Pridgen, became the Postmistress.


Eldorendo Baptist Church Cemetery

Victor Smith was the next Postmaster of Eldorendo until the post office was closed sometime during the early- to mid-1950s. It was re-opened in the late 1950s and was operated by Calista Powell Jester Barrett. It was closed again in the late 1960s due to lack of use and improved road development which allowed easier mail delivery to the rural areas.

Faceville is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, Georgia, United States.


Abandoned Produce Store?

Faceville is located at the junction of Georgia State Route 97 and Georgia State Route 302 Spur, 11 miles south-southwest of Bainbridge.


Faceville Volunteer Fire Department.

Notable person

Jack Thomas Brinkley, U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1967 to 1983.



Fowlstown is an unincorporated community in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. The community is located on Georgia State Route 309. An early variant name was Kemp.


Fowlstown General Store & Post Office.


Fowlstown Methodist Church, 1880s, Decatur County.

Vada is an unincorporated community in Decatur and Mitchell counties, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

History

A post office called Vada was established in 1892, and remained in operation until 1907.


Random sights for a pass through Vada.

The community was named after Vada Wooten, the daughter of a local law enforcement agent. Early variant names were "Harrell" and "Pull-Tight".

Since we did not go in a cave today, I am taking a break from Cave Girl theme for GNW Gals. We did speed across Lake Seminole, one of the great Bass fishing lakes of America. So our GNW Gals are showing their BASS.