Long County GaArchives Photo Person.....Price, Mel (Judge) An Eagle & David Parker Hughes 1913
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Thomas D. Houston houstont@coastalnow.net December 5, 2004, 11:00 am

Source:             Personal Files
Name:               Mel (Judge) An Eagle & David Parker Hughes Price

Date Of Photograph: 1913
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I ran across this photo in my files-- which is quite interesting. 
First, it is 90 years old, and has a dead eagle being held up by two 
stalwart citizens of Long County. Today, it would be a crime to kill an 
eagle, but then, it was just being neighborly.  In those days, this was 
"free range county" and cattle and other livestck roamed at large.  Young 
calves, lambs, and pigs were "fair game" to the marauding eagles, so any one 
that bagged one had the cattle owners gratitude. 
 
"Caption  " 
This  1913 Photo shows Judge Mel Price (Left) and David Parker Hughes (R) 
holding a Bald Eagle that had been killed.prsumably by one of them.  Judge 
Price was the Judge of Superior Court in the Atlantic Judicial Circuit of 
Georgia for many years.  David Parker Hughes was the first Liberty Countian 
killed in World War I.  In the days of "free range" livestorck, eagles 
frequently attacked young calves, lambs and pigs, so the stockmen frequently 
shot eagles in defense of their stock.  The photo was taken in front of the 
Ludowici Hotel in downtown Ludowici. The brick building to the left was 
Branch's Pharmacy.  The new Long County Library occupies this site today.

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