Schley County GaArchives News.....THE FIRST RAILROAD (James M. Acree) June 27 1892
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The Atlanta Constitution  

The Atlanta Constitution  June 27, 1892

THE FIRST RAILROAD
A Man Who Saw the First Bale of Cotton Hauled Out

Ellaville, Ga., June 25--(Special)--The town is resting upon its oars and 
hardly a ripple is distrubing the surface of public feeling and sentiment, 
only when occassionally a citizen who has had a interview with the tax 
equalizers explodes his pent up wrath against the tax equalizers and goes back 
home to lay by his corn, and it is hoped to grow calm.  Poor equalizers!  They 
must forever retire from public life or go west.  James M. Acree is one of the 
equalizers, and, by the way, is old enough to keep calm even if the people 
do "cuss."  

Mr. Acree is a cylcopedia of Georgia history within himself.  He said this 
morning:

I helped to put the first bale of cotton on the cars that was ever hauled by 
locomotive in Georgia.  It was in 1837 when the Georgia railroad was being 
built from Augusta to Athens.  

The track had been laid ten miles out from Augusta to Butler's creek, and a 
wagon I was on with five bales of cotton broke down and the management of the 
construction train volunteered to haul the cotton in to Augusta free."



Additional Comments:
Can anyone explain to me what a tax equalizer is?  Is it some sort of assessor?

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