Pulaski County GaArchives News.....Hawkinsville Old and New (History of a Street) April 1926
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Hawkinsville Dispatch And News April 1926
There is a street in Hawkinsville that has had a part in the history of the 
State, and of the Nation, Jackson Street.  Named for that superlative soldier 
and statesman, Andrew Jackson.

The tradition is, that it marks the course blazed by Gen. Blackshear’s men.

Huge water oaks are still standing that must have been old, when those 
fearless pioneer soldiers, passed by.

State Papers in the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C., giving the 
itinerary of Gen. Jackson after crossing the Ocmulgee at Hartford, are proof 
that this street was the route of his march.

Those early days of march were days of achievements, and of confident 
strength, but down this old street there came another, the funeral march of a 
Lost Sause (Cause?)

Passing through Hawkinsville in 1865, under military escort, came a stainless 
prisoner, the beloved president of the Confederate States of America, 
Jefferson Davis.

We would forget this march, if we could, the saddest, most momentous that ever 
traversed old Jackson street.

On the corner of Jackson and Broad, the Daughters of the American Revolution 
have erected a granite boulder, with a bronze marker, commemorating 
the “Jackson Trail.”



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