Butts County GaArchives News.....Jackson Ga - Booming Town July 20 1887
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Middle Ga Argus

Jackson Booming

A college to be Erected

A Railroad To Indian Springs
New Stores, Dwellings And Other Enterprises

The Argus has for some time, been saying that Jackson had seen her dullest day, 
and that a real live boom was about to strike the town.  Today we can sit and 
see our fondest hopes realized.  A genuine healty(?) boom is upon us and 
everything and every body has taken hold of the spirit of the hour and moving 
with a progressive push.

The new college is the leading feature of our new enterprises.  As mentioned in 
our last, a spirit of oneness seemed to take hold of our people and a 
subscription of five thousand dollars was raised in a few hours to put into a 
building.  A board of directors consisting of nine of our very best young 
businessmen was chosen with Mr. W. M. Mallett, president.  These have gone to 
work with a vim and have about arranged everything for work on the house to 
begin at once.   A modern plan has been adopted, which contains all the latest 
in improvements and conveniences for school teaching, with separate rooms for 
all the various branches of a first class High School, including music etc.  
The chapel will be well arranged with a large stage, dressing room etc, with 
seating capacity for six hundred persons.  The college will be erected on the 
old college hill, which is situated in a most delightful grove of giant oaks 
within easy reach of the public square and convenient to all the citizens of 
town.

It is the intention of the directors to employ a first class corps of teachers 
and put the tuition down to one dollar per month, which will assure a large 
attendance.  Thus our fondest hopes are being realized and a solid prosperity 
is downing upon us.


The Indian Spring Railroad

The early completion of a railroad to the healing waters of old Indian Spring 
is another boom for Jackson.  Such is the truth.  In another column of this 
issue will be seen a notice tht a charter for said road will be asking for 
during the present session of the legislature.  It is headed by Messrs. J. B. & 
B. F. Watkins, who are possessed and enterprise sufficient to push the road to 
completion.  A line from Jackson to the Spring can be constructed exceedingly 
cheap, as but little grading will be required, more than half the way being 
almost a dead level.

Besides the college and the Indian Spring railroad, a cotton seed oil mill, and 
a fertilizer factory are one of the certainties of our near future.   From 
these considerations and the prospect of the early completion of the road from 
Monticello to Griffin, our real estate has taken a sudden bound upward and is 
still rising.  Several new men have recently made purchases here, while several 
new dwellings will shortly be erected.

Thus it will be seen that Jackson has taken on new life and her futures is 
brighter today than ever before.  This is no mushroom excitement but is a 
genuine upward tendency and we trust to see it move onward till our ten 
thousand inhabitants are reached.

Middle Ga Argus  Week of July 20,1887


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