Schley-Marion County GaArchives News.....A Description of Schley/Marion Counties-1885 August 17, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 June 10, 2005, 4:34 pm The Atlanta Constitution August 17, 1885 The Marion County Sentinel says the praises of Southwest Georgia, showing it to possess advantages which should attract heavy immigration. It says: Southwest Georgia is the garden spot of the world and the counties of Schley and Marion, the central beds in the beautiful garden. With a climate which excels that of Italy, this section of Georgia offers a home to the man and woman residingh in the bleak and ice bound regions of a higher latitude in every way desirable. We know but little of these extremes of heat and colds, destructive alike to comfort, health and life. Marion is a banner cotton county of Georgia--this is no guess work--the commissioner of agriculture of the state of Georgia at the exposition held at Atlanta announced the fact on a prominent placard to the people of the world and none doubted. Our society cannot be excelled in any portion of this state, or elsewhere. A proper attention is given to religion and education, and men and womwn occupy that place in the scale of social life to which they are entitled by merit. No ostracism on account of poverty or previous place of abode, a due regard by every citizen for the rights of othersis held by all to be a paramount duty, and the people of this section look more to a man's destiny than to his origin. A large portion of the territory of the county of Schley formerly belonged to the county of Marion, including the present county site, Ellaville, the prettiest town in Georgia, modestly nestling in her emerald setting of living green. Her business men are enterprising and successful. Phoenix like rising from the ashes of the war. The past clothes Ellaville with many pleasant memories, her future will be just what vim and pluck will make her. Building lots at present can be bought there much cheaper than the same lots can be bought one year hence. The two counties of Marion and Schley are watered with creeks, branches and small brooks, never falling streams, which, though free gifts from the God of nature, would be held in high esteem by sections in the states west of us where the rippling of running waters during the summer months are hushed. Our home soldiers some of them, will remember the weary march in the neighborhood of Corinth and Tupelo, Mississippi, and the scarcity of water. There is also a broad guage railroad of recent construction, running from Buena Vista in Marion county, through the county of Schley, by Ellaville to Anderson(ville), a spot made famous as being once the place where one of the Confederate prisons was located. The grounds now kept and beautified as a national cemetery. What could be more delightful to a northern invalid on a southern tour seeking rest than to stop in Anderson (ville), view the national cemetery grounds, board the Buena Vista and Ellaville train and after a few minutes and after a twelve mile ride, reach Ellaville, made to feel at home by kindness and hospitality, and begin to study the character of true southerners, finally giving place to others coming in, proceed to Buena Vista, to meet other true southern men and women, breathe the pure air, said to be the best on the continent by a scientist of no small repute for the consumptive drink good wholesome water (not artesian) and return home, built up physically, mentally and spiritually, by an association with cultured and hospitable people. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/newspapers/adescrip2187nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb