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HOTELS
  Hawkinsville has kept abreast of other towns in her hotels. The first Inn or
Tavern was on the right approach to the World War Memorial Bridge, near the
river bank, and was a hotel of historic significance. Later it was used for a
boarding house for colored people, known as the "Braxton Hotel." Many years ago
it was burned; also the nearby Gulf Line depot. Neither building was ever
replaced, and now only the constant humming of a sawmill and ginnery, with the
lazy splashing of the Ocmulgee on its way to the sea, is heard. The Scarborough
House, one of the landmarks of Hawkinsville, was a part of the first courthouse,
having been brought over from Hartford when it was first built and used as a
courthouse. There was also the Daniels House, Hawkinsville's first brick
hostelry. The Pulaski Hotel, a large two-story building on the corner of
Commerce and Jackson Streets, where the Woco-Pep Filling Station now stands, was
a popular hotel in the early seventies. The Joiner House on Commerce Street
flourished for years, managed by some of Georgia's most experienced hotel men,
and had as its guests a number of prominent people. This building has since been
converted into automobile show rooms. The Octagon Hotel, on the corner of
Jackson and Liberty Streets, in the residential section, was another of the
older hotels and at one time very popular. As the town grew, a larger hotel
became a necessity, so Mr. Pope Brown, a man of vision and public spirit, built
in the early nineties

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a beautiful hotel across from the courthouse and on the lot where the
Scarborough House stood. The Scarborough House was moved to Broad Street, used
as a boarding house, and later burned. The new hotel, the Brown House, was built
of wood and was a replica of Mount Vernon, home of Washington. In a few years
it, too, was reduced to ashes. Again the question of adequate hotel facilities
had to be settled. A stock company of the business men was organized, and on the
corner of Commerce and Lumpkin Streets, where the Scarborough House and the
Brown House once stood, a hand-some three-story brick building was erected. This
building was called Hotel Kemper, in honor of Miss Kemper Thompson, now Mrs.
George Roach, of Oxford, Georgia, and daughter of Mr. Morgan Thompson. It has
had many changes in both ownership and name, and at the present time is owned by
Mr. Nick Cabero and operated by Mrs. Nina Pate, and is known as "The Brown
House," a hotel with an enviable reputation.

  In 1908 the late J. L. Huggins erected a three-story brick building on the
corner of Commerce and Lumpkin Streets. As an office building, it was never a
success, but was later remodeled into a hotel

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and named "The New Pulaski." It is owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Turner, who have a State-wide reputation with the traveling public.

   Hawkinsville can justly claim two of the best hotels anywhere, and good
hotels are indispensable to the growth of any city.



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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY GEORGIA"

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