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SAFETY, EXPEDITION, AND COMFORT

    New arrangement, Jan. 1, 1837. The Piedmont or Southwestern Mail Line to
Washington City will hereafter leave Milledge-ville, Georgia, every other day
immediately after the arrival of the mail from Columbus and Montgomery; through
to Washington City in seven days, nineteen hours, allowing sleep every night
when the road will permit. Passengers by this line will reach Baltimore in seven
days and twenty-two hours; Philadelphia, eight days and six hours; New York, in
eight days and fourteen hours. Fare to Washington City $45.75, only seven cents
per mile.

    This line, known at the North as the Southwestern Line, leaves Washington
City for the South, via Fredericksburg, Va. This

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is the shortest route between Milledgeville and Washington City.

    PECK, WELFORD and CO., Proprietors.
    Office at La Fayette Hall and one door south of Washington Hall,
Milledgeville, Ga.

    (Copied from Federal Union, published at Milledgeville, March 28, 1837).


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Part I

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA
BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED
ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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