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CONCLUSION.
IN CLOSING this history of Dodge County and her people, we note the progress
that has been made along all lines in the sixty-two years since the creation of
the county, and compare the conditions of today with those in the beginning.
From the one-room school house we have progressed to modern, well equipped
school buildings with only teachers employed who have college degrees. From a
school attendance of less than a thousand there are now enrolled five thousand
children, with forty-four modern school buses to transport them to and from
school each day.

  We have also made wonderful strides in an agricultural way. From 950 bales of
cotton produced in the early years we now produce something like twenty thousand
bales per year. Before the advent of the boll weevil in 1920 the number of bales
were thirty to thirty-five thousand per year.

  In the early days whiskey was sold openly in this county, and at one period
there were twelve barrooms in the town of Eastman. These barrooms have been
replaced by handsome business houses.

  From the little sandy trails of earlier days, which were just wide enough for
a buggy or wagon to travel, we now have sixteen hundred miles of well kept
public roads throughout the county, with twenty-three miles of paved highway
extending across the entire county, which gives this section a paved highway
direct from Atlanta through Eastman to Jacksonville, Florida.

  There is also a marked contrast in the way the prisoners are cared for today
as compared to the long ago. Through our efficient County Commissioner, W. D.
McCranie, the old prison cages have been abandoned and a handsome stockade of
concrete, reinforced with steel, was erected in 1929. It is modern and sanitary
in every respect, being equipped with shower baths and has well ventilated and
properly heated sleeping quarters, with clean, comfortable cots and mattresses.

  Today all of the principal streets in the business section of Eastman are
paved with concrete, and paved sidewalks extend throughout the entire
residential section of the town.


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HISTORY
OF
DODGE COUNTY

COPYRIGHT    1932
By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB

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FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA.



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