The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-16


Ok the government survey was
ond lots were granted to these
:, bv the state. What is now
n was then a part of Lee, Ran
and Kinchafoonee (now Web
COMMITTEES. 1t was not until 1856
Il was created into a separate |
and named for DR.. William
n an eminent physician and |
Imam from Hancock county.
ginning with the handful of set |
in 1856 the population has !
to nearly $4,000. i
WATER COURSES.
Kinchafoonee River, Ichaway- !
Iway and Chickasawhatchee
s. which finally flow into the
are the chief water ways.
are fed by the Keokee, Ross,
pubba, Turkey, Pine Head and
lie creeks.
SOILS OF TERRELL.
for the soils of Terrell, we
from a recent soil survey got
but by the government bureau of
survey: Including muck and
Nm. 35 distinct types of soil are
tifed in Terrell county. Divided,
riding to texture, to sands, fine
5. loamy sands, sandy loans,
S, clay loans, and clay. The
ter part of the county is compos-
group of soils designated as
h loans, in which the surface
Its chiefly of sandy material and
subsoil of sandy clay. This in
Is the most productive soils in
|hern Georgia, good both for
and general farming. Owing to
lightness of the soil, cotton ma
earlier than in heavier grades,
4 this fact gives an advantage in
ling the boil weevil."
here are nearly 5000 farms I'M
cultivation, comprising about IS
cent. of the total acreage.
/ he average price per acre of
b lands runs from SIS to $40.
AWSON, THE COUNTY SEAT.
Ierrells history is so closely inter
Zen with that of Dawson that we
bot continue with the county with
first bringing in that little city
kh bears he name of Hon. Will
s. Crosby Dawson, a statesman of
ne county, Georgia.
cember %, 1857, Dawson was
out on 100 acres of land pur-
ed by the county authorities
Mr. Moses H. Baldwin, the price
B $500 per acre. Daniel Law
was paid $4,000 for surveying
i lots and Calvin Register re-
FED $1,000 for clearing the public
] re and putting the streets in or
ZACH little home at that time was
FOunded by a small farm, several
II stores were clustered together
Fhe center. At first there were no
fches in the town limits, the res
ltS still wsorhipping in the church
battered in the different parts of
county.
ISTORIC SITES OF TERRELL.
h the early days when the Indians
med over Georgia, their most fam
trail, used by trappers and trad.
was called Bonds trail, a part of
ch traverses Terrell county.
)over and Chickasawhatchee are
two oldest white settlements in
county, having been settled in
V-l840. In 1910 at a cross roads
ED Head town there was a store
led by one Larkin Mcneil, which
even then a we'll known place, is
posed to have been the nucleus
the settlement which was later
Ed Chickasawhatchee.
IN Chickasawhatchee Greek near
village are the breast works con-
lcted by General Andrew Jackson,
e IN camp on his historic march
lorlda. Another incident of this
|en Is given by Mr.. L. M. Brown
srrott. We quote him verbatum:
pen small boy, l heard Mr..
B. Brown, a former honor
and well-to-do citizen of Ter
county, say that he was with
eral Jackson, and told of the
lShlps in moving small army
ugh the wilderness. They cross
Chenubbee Creek at an Indian
we by that name. General Jack
drank water from a spring used
ne Indians at the foot of white
Tree, where the public road from
son to Parrott now crosses Chen
: creek. Some of us are now liv-
VINO remember the spring and
'e oak, but progress has destroy
BOTH"