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HISTORICAL FACTS

   The Supreme Court of Georgia used to hold regular sittings at Hawkinsville.
For many years after its establishment, the court migrated, and convened at
eight different places in the State. The first session at Hawkinsville convened
at the June term, 1864. "Present, their honors, Lumpkin, Warner and Nisbett," so
the record declares.

   The sessions were held in the county courthouse, on the spot where the Brown
House now stands. Only a few years ago the old building which, with its
addition, was known as the Scarboro House, was standing.

   At the first term that was held at Hawkinsville, the minutes show that the
following attorneys, among others, were admitted to practice at its bar:

   Augustus H. Hansell, Hawkinsville; Peter E. Love, Hawkinsville; David B.
Robinson, Hawkinsville; William S. Whitfield, Hawkinsville; Charles S. Hawley,
Hawkinsville; George Brainard, Hawkinsville; Jared S. Dennard, Perry; Eli
Warren, Perry; P. T. Strozier, Albany; Thomas B. Donnelly, Vienna.

   One of the earliest banks to be incorporated in this State was the old "Bank
of Hawkinsville," incorporated in 1831, with a capital stock of two hundred
thousand dollars (Prince's Digest of Georgia Laws, page 106). A branch of the
"Bank of Darien" was located at Hawkinsville at an earlier date (see Prince's
Digest, page 67; Act of the General Assembly, approved Dec. 15, 1818.)

   One or the other of these banks was located in the brick building near the
river, at the corner of Florida and Commerce Streets. Later, in the same
building, was a mercantile business, conducted by James W. Lathrop, then a
resident of Hawkinsville, but later a prominent citizen of Savannah, where he
organized and became the first president of the Savannah Cotton Exchange. He was
too old to go to the front in the sixties, but his brother, Charles T. Lathrop,
served in Pruden's Battery, and was a faithful soldier. They were men of
northern birth. Their father, at the time of his death, was the Democratic
nominee for the governorship of Indiana.

   In the front of this old bank building was the store of John Rawls, who,
nearly a hundred years ago, was one of the wealthiest men of this section.



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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY
GEORGIA"

OFFICIAL HISTORY

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESS OF WALTER W. BROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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