Elbert County GaArchives News.....Ferries a necessity December 5, 1990 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Chandler Eavenson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007294 June 18, 2009, 4:20 pm The Elberton Star December 5, 1990 Elbert County is located between two good sized rivers and early settlers soon realized that if they wanted to go anywhere except toward the mountains, they had to cross a river to get there.Since there was neither the money or the engineering skill among the early pioneers to build bridges, the ferry system of crossing the river soon came into being. Many of the early pioneers were from coastal areas and knew how to build the big flat boats needed as ferrys, so ferrys were installed at vantage points on the river and a fee charged to get people from one side to the other. One of the biggest tragedies in the area occurred on Easter Sunday in 1920 at Harper's Ferry when the ferry sank and eleven young people, who were out enjoying a Spring outing, drowned. A partial list of the ferries serving the Savannah includes Cade's Ferry, Clark's Ferry, Shuckpen Eddy Ferry, Calhoun's Ferry, Burton's Ferry, Tucker's Ferry, Cherokee Ferry, Rucker's and Tucker's Ferry, Harper's Ferry, Craft's Ferry, and Sander's Ferry. Broad River ferries were Cade's Ferry (it also crossed the Savannah), Bullard's Ferry, Baker's Ferry, Bell's Ferry, Jones Ferry, Peyton's Ferry, Moon's Ferry, Vickery's Ferry, Deadwyler's Ferry and Martha's Ferry. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/elbert/newspapers/ferriesa2659gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb