Marion County GaArchives News.....Charles Knowlton April 29 1887
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 17

April 29, 1887

Page Five



He is a Genius



Mr. Charles Knowlton, who is the foreman of the grand jury of the present term 

of our court, is a genius and withal a clever gentleman.  He lives in the 

eastern part of the county, has a prosperous milling business and a good 

farm.   On his place is a mineral spring, which is known throughout this 

section, and as a testimony of the faith Mr. Knowlton has in its virtues, he is 

building and has nearly completed a house sufficiently large to accommodate 

those who wish to take advantage of its medicinal properties.  He is a 

systematic, and his entire premises, which is but a reproduction of the 

northern idea of comfort is arranged for convenience.  He will have a system of 

water works from the spring to his house, by means of a pump; the power to work 

this pump will be from his pond.  The water main will be of pine saplings, 

bored and jointed by himself, which will not only give a bountiful supply of 

water for the use of his residence, but for every other purpose on the 

premises.  He is a natural genius in the mechanical art and came by it 

honestly.  His father was a native of New York State, and came south before the 

subject of this brief notice was born.  He took the contract and laid the first 

water works system that Augusta ever had in the year 1828, using bored pine 

logs as the metallic piping now in use was not then in vogue.  Mr. Knowlton 

says that when he visited Augusta, three or four years ago, a portion of this 

old water works system was still in use.







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