The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-26
BUCKHALTER's GEOGRAPHY.
The Land the Proposed Canal VIII
Drain and Where the Buckhalter
Road RIMS

The Land the Proposed Canal VIII
Drain and Where the Buckhalter
Road Runs.
Editor Morning News: In your Lesson
in Local Geography this morning you say
truly there are, no doubt, great many
readers of the Morning News-local read
ers-who have no very definite idea with
regard to the whereabouts of Buckhalter
road, Buckhalter swamp and 'Dutchtown'
road" Indeed that section is so sparseIy
inhabited and the roads so little Travelled
that there are many persons who have
lived in Savannah all their lives-I may
say large majority of the citys popula-
tion-never even heard of that locality IN
til recently and could not tell now. If ask
ed, whether that swamp and those roads
lie north, south, east or west of this place.
Perhaps they may better comprehend
the subject if they will consult Plattins
map of the county. On this map they will
see that the Atlantic and Gulf railroad
U.s. f. and W) crosses the Little Ogee-
chee river about nine miles out About
three-quarters of an inch below the cross
lng-say half a mile-they will see
creek coming into the river through the
plantations named on the map as Cher
burg and Rockingham" (now better known
as Mr.. Dale's land. This creek is the out
let of the Buckhalter swamp drainage and
It's mouth is, as writer said in your paper
last week fully eight and half miles
in an air line from the city," It's drain
age territory is, we are told, about 5000
acres, more than third Of
which, probably. lies in the aforesaid
Hockingham and Cherburg and the ad-
joining plantations. Cass, Regain and St
AIMS We are also told that the main
canal VIII be "abut six miles long" From
the map 1t then appears that about one
half of its length-the lower and most ex-
pensive part of the work, will be on the
above named plantations, the most remote
part of that drainage territory from the
city.
Consulting the map further, it will be
seen that about two miles
to the east of the swamp
is the "old highway which mean
ders northward to the city from Dutch
town" Now, this latter place is not a
town and no Dutchmen live there, as
the writer knows Of" but the place is
Just called So
The Buckhalter road is not shown on the
map, probably because the time II was
drained that road was not regarded of the
importance it now seems to be. But it
leaves the White Bluff road Just opposite
the Montgomery cross road about five and
three-quarter miles out and runs westward
through 'Munnerlyn," 'Moreland" (see
map along or near the northern boundary
OF st. AIMS or Whereabouts. Passing
through the Buckhalter swamp it crosses
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail-
way about six and one-quarter miles out
and thence "meanders" through Parker's,
near Cherburg and Rockingham and
through Oakland to the Ogeechee road,
between the six and seven mile stones.
To the people who know these localities
it is question whether the wisdom of
the commissioners in determining upon
the immediate prosecution of the drainage
and road work there is influenced more
by exigency or the exiquity of the knowl-
edge of most of them of that section.
Savannah, June %. Boium.