Marion County GaArchives News.....Neighborhood of Mt. Pisgah Church - 1894 June 29 1894
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 26
June 29, 1894
Page Two

Over the County

News to Interest Our Readers From Every Section of Old Marion

Brantley, Ga., June 27, 1894

Mr. Editor: I was glad to see in your last issue mention of the people in the 
neighborhood of Mt. Pisgah church.  It is remarkable the way this section is 
building up.  Just to think a few years ago there was only a few settlers in 
this section, and very little, if any, cotton raised.  It is very different 
now.  Land has been cleared, the young men have married, settled farms, built 
good houses and there is not less than 300 bales of cotton ginned a season.  
There is not doubt about this being a thrifty, prosperous people raising all 
the necessary supplies at home and cotton a surplus.

I might give you a little history of the section of which I write.  A few years 
ago there was near where now stands a splendid church, a drinking saloon where 
people would congregate, get drunk, swear and fight, and on one occasion one of 
our county’s best citizens came very near getting killed from a gun in the 
hands of a reckless man, but such occurrences are a thing of the past.  The bad 
people have disappeared and exist no more among these good people.

There are two things that are very much needed to make up the conveniences of 
the neighborhood – a good school and a post office, which they expect to have 
at an early day.  They have in their midst Burt’s mill run by a good, clever 
man, Mr. A.J. Taylor, which saws their lumber, grinds their corn, gins their 
cotton and thrashes their wheat; also a stock of goods kept by Mr. J.W. Amos, 
consisting of most everything the country needs in the way of general 
merchandise, handled by a fair dealer.

There is more room in this section for good men.  There are at least 1,000 
acres of unsettled land that good men who would work could make a find support 
and some money, and they could not get into a better section to raise their 
children as there are no bad influences whatever, and they would have ample 
range for their stock.  Good men would be heartily welcomed.

This section of the country is situated nine miles a little northwest of Buena 
Vista, it’s county site, a town of which we are proud, as it is one of the best 
in the state.

As we have been blessed with good rains, and it is evident that we can’t 
realize more than one-half to two-thirds of a corn crop I would advise every 
farmer to plant peas, potatoes and peanuts and it is not to late to plant a 
late patch of corn.  It will more than pay them for their trouble.

Z.B.W.


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