page_title: Draketown, Georgia
section_title: Other important pioneers
hierarchical_section_title: Draketown, Georgia / History / Pioneers / Other important pioneers
caption_attribution_description: English: Calvin Cissero Bishop's Cotton Gin
context_page_description: Draketown is an unincorporated community in Haralson County, Georgia, United States. It was first settled by the Mound Builders. Around the 15th or 16th century, the Cherokee Indians and Creek Indians replaced the Mound Builders and began their own society. Mostly the Cherokee Indians settled In the Draketown area.
context_section_description: Drawn by the school and the doctors in Draketown, many people moved to the area.  There was a cotton gin and a gristmill run by Calvin Cissero "Cal" Bishop, a blacksmith shop run by William Morris (later by William Taylor "Dub" Eaves), and a hotel built by Will Abercombie. Draketown also had a couple of stores, including Reeves General Mercantile (owned by John Reeves) and Strickland and Rose. Oss Carroll ran a dry-goods store on a corner across the street from Dr. W.F. Goldin's house (torn down November 17, 2015).
  In 1905, the first steam-powered vehicle arrived in Draketown, accompanied by a mule. The first internal-combustion automobile arrived in 1910. It was a Model T Ford owned by Dr. W.F. Golden. A year later, four Maxwell cars, one owned by Dr. B.F. Eaves, arrived. Most of the citizens could not afford automobiles, and traveled by horse and buggy or wagon instead. It took an entire day to travel one-way to or from the county seat, Buchanan.
  The hotel, built by Will Abercrombie, served as housing for the teachers of the Draketown Baptist Institute. Oss Carroll later moved his store into the hotel. Across the main Draketown road was a parsonage house, a sizable two-story building. The road from Temple went through what is now Edwards Road (a small, one-lane dirt road) and continued through what is now Eaves Drive. The stretch of road that connects Highway 113 to Highway 120 was not cut until much later.
caption: Cotton gin owned by Calvin C. Bishop around 1900
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