The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-09-23
SARGE PEsojAgEIT
Growing Grapes on the Old Red Hills
Of Georgia.
FRENCH FAMILY OF REFUGEES
Have Turned an Old Red Hill Into a
Thing of Beauty and
of Profit.
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have to leave the city very far to see
what can be accomplished on the lands of
Georgia.
In two miles of the union depot may ne
seen a little farm that speaks stronger
than words of what can be done on Geor-
e'a lands. A few years ago this land had
gone to waste. Ruts made it unsSnty ana
it's owner was moving with all mis- energy
to sell and set off to Texas, About TINS
time there came to Atlanta family Oh
French people to work in the factory
I his French family FAILED from niue
village called Natziller, Alsace-Lorralhe.
When the war was raging between Ma
poleon III and the Germans these people
refugeed from Alsace-L Lorraine and took up
their abode in Paris. When the war was
ended and Alsace-Lorraine fell under the
government of the Germans these pappi"
preferred to come to America rather than
to return to their conquered homes. 1ney
landed in New YORK city on May 49, 1881,
with only IS cents in their pockets a house
fun of small children and in a strange land.
A visit to their home out West Hunter
street, just two miles, and a look at their
surrour dings viii impress YOU of what
may be accomplished in Georgia
1t has been just fourteen years since the
old man Bernard purchased this sevcu-acre
lot IL was considered too poor to sprout
peas at that time, and rough, reu and uil-
slightly, but when ! look upon II now !
feel sorry for the fool Georgia Cracker,
who sold it for scng and spent the money
moving to Texas. The whole place has
been bearing grapes for a number of years,
the Bernards are rich, good dwellings,
barns aud wine cellar g0Xll0 feet three
stories high and full of wine
As have stated these people were refu-
gees from Alsacc-L Lorraine during the
Franco-Gcrman war. When they landed
in Now York they were seen by an agent
Of the Atlanta cotton factory aud maee a
trade to come to Atlanta. They sold every
thing they had to get to Atlanta and there
was not one OF them that could speak a
word of English. But they could work, and
the whole family went at it, and they went
to planning to save ana buy a few acres.
by the aid OF Governor Bullock and the
firm of Elsas. May a. Co, old man Bernard
was enabled to buy this scven-acre tract
and ne at once moved upon it and began
planting grapes and improving the land.
The children were kept in the factories for
a few years, while the old folks staid at
home and tended the farm. For three
years spades and grubbing hoes was all
they used to do the work that our folks
perform with the plow. Pretty soon,
though, the little farm began to bloom and
blossom ana the ruts began to pass away.
They got them cow and pigs, they saved
and stinted till pretty soon they had more
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