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Book Title: The Dead Towns Of Georgia

THE DEAD TOWNS OF GEORGIA;
BY
CHARLES C. JONES, JR.

FOR HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY.
Heb.: xiii. 14

SAVANNAH:
MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 
1878.

TO
GEORGE WYMBERLEY-JONEN DeRENNE, ESQ.,
OF SAVANNAH,
WHOSE INTELLIGENT RESEARCH, CULTIVATED TASTE, AND AMPLE FORTUNE HAVE BEEN SO
GENEROUSLY ENLISTED IN RESCUING FROM OBLIVION THE EARLY MEMORIES OF GEORGIA,
THESE SKETCHES ARE RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY INSCRIBED.

PREFATORY NOTE.

  If it be praiseworthy in their descendants to erect monuments in honor of the
illustrious dead, and to perpetuate in history the lives and acts of those who
gave shape to the past and encouragement to the future, surely it will not be
deemed inappropriate to gather up the fragmentary memories of towns once vital
and influential within our borders, but now covered with the mantle of decay,
without succession, and wholly silent amid the voices of the present.

  Against the miasmatic influences of the swamps, Spanish perils, the hostility
of the Aborigines, and the poverty and sometimes narrow mindedness of the Trust,
did the Colonists grievously struggle in asserting their dominion over the
untamed lands from the Savannah to the Alatamaha. Nothing indicates so surely
the vicissitudes and the mistakes encountered during that primal period of
development, as the DEAD TOWNS OF GEORGIA. From each comes in turn the whisper
of hope, the sound of the battle with nature for life and comfort, the sad
strain of disappointment, and then the silence of nothingness.

  Of the chosen seats and characteristics of the primitive peoples who inhabited
this territory prior to the advent of the European we have elsewhere spoken.[1]

  Of the indications of a foreign occupancy antedating the colonization under
Oglethorpe, such, for example, as those observed by DeBrahm [2] on Demetrius'
island, and a few others which might be mentioned,— we refrain from writing,
because the theories explanatory of their origin, possession, and abandonment,
are so nebulous as to seem incapable of satisfactory solution.

  In narrating the traditions and grouping the almost obsolete memories of these
deserted villages we have endeavored to revive them, as far as practicable, in
the language of those to whom we are indebted for their transmission.
                                      CHARLES C. JONES, JR.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, February 1st, 1878.


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THE DEAD TOWNS OF GEORGIA;
BY
CHARLES C. JONES, JR.

FOR HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY.
Heb.: xiii. 14

SAVANNAH:
MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 
1878.

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