Monroe County GaArchives News.....Quaint Old Culloden February 22, 1892
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The Macon Telegraph February 22, 1892

Some of the Memories Which Hang Around the Place
Culloden, Feb. 20. - [Special]

Culloden is one of the quaint towns of Georgia. Her people make money, but 
take the world easy, and thus there is about them a charming sociability. 
Culloden boasts of the first brick church ever built in the state. It is in a 
splendid state of preservation and the basement is used for school purposes.
	
The house where Nat Hammond was reared has now been replaced by a modern 
cottage, but a widespreading magnolia marks the spot where stood his and his 
father’s law office.

The old blacksmith shop still stands where Governor Milton Smith served his 
apprenticeship when a boy, and there, too, is the old shoe shop erected by Tom 
Norwood’s father, and where the ex-senator himself learned the trade.

Culloden is the old home of Judge Robert Trippe, and the room where Judge 
Emory Speer was born is pointed out with pride to the visitor.

Culloden has just now a most interesting visitor. It is Mr. William L.P. Eager 
of Toronto, Ont., who came to Culloden to visit the grave of his uncle, 
William Culloden, after whom the village was named. Andrew Culloden, 
grandfather of William, was a Scotchman, and fought at the celebrated battle 
of Culloden. After the battle, disastrous to his side, he went to Ireland.

William Culloden was born at Mullinger, Ireland. His father, John Culloden, 
possessed large estates in Hindoostan (sic), went out there, engaged with a 
rich Italian, Col. Finch, in the indigo business. This firm failed, and 
William sought the inviting fields of the new country. He came to Savannah in 
1818, and then settled in Monroe county. He owned a farm and ran a country 
store, and in time the place took his name. He died in 1832, and the law firm 
of Poe & Nisbet of Macon represented the estate. Mr. Eager, an old man 
himself, intends visiting Macon, and made inquiries about the descendants of 
his uncles attorneys. His visit to Georgia is one of love.

Mr. Eager praises enthusiastically his adopted country, Ontario. The condition 
of farmers there, he says, is better than in the South - and yet they raise no 
cotton.

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