Butts County GaArchives News.....INCENDIARIES WORK AT ELGIN February 23 1892
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of February 23, 1892
On Wednesday night at about 3 o’clock the High Falls Lodge and School building 
was burned.  The house was a two story one, the first floor being used for a 
school room and in the second story was located High Falls Lodge of Free and 
Accepted Masons.  Mr. C. S. Maddox is Principal of he school and is assisted by 
Miss Elia (?) Pound of Jackson while Miss Minnie Hightower has charge of the 
music department.

We learn that there was no fire in the house after twelve o’clock the day 
before the burning and it is therefore believed to be the work of an 
incendiary.  The house was wrapped in flames when the fire was discovered and 
nothing at all was saved.  It is indeed a hardship of the community, as they 
had recently repaired the house by recovering, ceiling etc.  The school was one 
of the finest outside the town, in Middle Georgia.




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