Crisp County GaArchives News.....AMERICUS CLAIMS TO BE FATHER OF CORDELE SHIPP October 9, 1938
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Cordele Dispatch October 9, 1938
                     AMERICUS CLAIMS TO BE FATHER OF CORDELE SHIPP
                                   9 OCTOBER 1938

     The following letter from J. E. D. Shipp, one of the first settlers of
Cordele, will be of interest to present-day Cordeleans. Mr. SHipp, as one can
see from his letter, knows a great deal about Cordele, before and after its
beginning.
                                                       AMERICUS, GA.
                                                       OCTOBER 11, 1038
Mr. H. A. Wheeling
Secretary, Crisp County
Chamber of Commerce
Cordele, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Wheeling.
     I was delighted to receive your kind invitation to be with you on the 14th.
I will do my best to be there. We have already celebrated it here. The Rotary
Club asked me to deliver an address about the founding of the city, as Americus
has always claimed to be the Father of Cordele. I told them in my speech how I
spent the night with R. V. Bowen in 1886 and bought the plantation  for the
mortgage that I held over it, and how the city grew with rapid strides as the
magic  city of the pines, how we first named it "Cordelia" and when we found out
that there was a village already in Georgia by that name, we changed it to Cordele

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