The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-07-16
E FACTS ABOUT
CARROLL COUNTY GA.
e the "Press Gang" Will Meet
Next Week.

*Srroll County, Georgia has an
@of 4So miles; 314,S80 acres; more
Z 5000 farms, IS per cent. OF
xh are owned and operated by
and prosperous white farmers.
---gest white rural population of
county in the State-approxi-
Eely 10000 population, only Is per
It. of which is colored.
Trhe Fourth District agricultural
i Mechanical School (Carrollton);
anch OF the University of Georgia
owdon); Mt Zion Seminary &
1t. Zion).
sHas law-abiding citizens; good
Slrches; good public buildings; one
@ni-weekly and three weekly news
sperS. twelve banks, four cotton
$lls; hosiery mills; fertilizer plants;
i mills; ginneries; saw and plan
D mills; cotton warehouses; bot
ing works; wholesale houses; pub
library; good hotels clean places
amusement; professional baseball;
long list of miscellaneous retail
8,rchants, and is located on the Cen
al of Georgia Railway in the north
estern part OF the State.
Half-million dollar bond issue be-
g expended on good roads work
vo branches of Bankhead Highway
Carroll offers opportunities only to
lie better class OF citizens and man
acturers seeking a location.
Educational
Carroll county from an educational
andpolnt numbers among the first
'unties in the State OF Georgia.
Carrollton, the county seat, Bow
On, Villa Rica, Temple, Whitesburp
t. Zion and Roopville have splendid
,hool systems, while the home OF
le Fourth District Agricultural and
-echanlcal School. branch OF the
tate University, and one OF the best
the twelve schools in the State. is
Gated at Carrollton.
Carroll is dotted with eightv-eieht
,hools, many OF which are being
onsolldated. Consolidation is made
osSible by the great program OF road
Improvement which is being carried
ut In Carroll county. According to
tate authorities Carroll county is
taking more progress educationallv
ian any other county in the State OF
eorgla, now having under construc-
on nine new consolidated schools
nd thirteen other school buildings
eng enlarged and repaired to meet
lie State requirements.
The action OF the last Legislature
ade the school at Bowdon a branch
the State University, adding
realty to Carroll county from an
EDUCATIONAL standpoint.
CAROLS educators are the hest
Historical
Carroll county was named for
harles Carroll, OF Carrollton, the
ealthlest man who signed the Dec
ration OF independence.
Laid out in 1926, extending from
Vest oPint to the Cherokee line
ear where Buchanan now ts-lO0
lilies by 40.
Carroll was the home of General
lclntosh, the chieftain who secured
lie REIMBURSEMENT of the Indians
ties to the lands west of the Chatta-
oochee river. He was murdered bv
TENDERS OF his tribe, and his grave
on the bank OF the Chattahoochee,
this county, his old home.
Carroll was long known as the
Free State OF Carroll" because OF its
re: Later she became the Mother
Countles" having given of her ter
tory to the formation OF more
ian halt dozen other counties. To,
ay she IS known as the Banner
::grlcultural County" OF the State
The White Mans County" The
ounty OF Small Farms"
Carroll furnished more troops to
he Confederacy than she had voters
lore than a thousand Of her sons
erved in the oWrld War, most OF
nom saw service abroad.
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