Sumter County GaArchives News.....Former City of Danville a Cotton Field - 1902 August 15 1902
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 33
August 15, 1902
Page Five

Former City a Cotton Field

Mr. Cullen Horne, Jr. came back yesterday from a visit to his father’s 
plantation on Flint river, eighteen miles east of Americus, and told his 
friends of prosperity in that favored section of old Sumter.  On the Horne 
plantation are the ruins of the ancient town of Danville, and where were once 
brick stores and comfortable residences are now broad cotton fields and 
stretches of waving corn.  The site of the old town was a commanding rock 
bluff, forty feet above the level of the river and beautiful withal.  Columns 
could be written about the growth and prosperity of this old Georgia town, the 
center of wealth and culture a third of a century ago.  But for some reason 
Danville collapsed, and the owls and bats now hold nightly carnival amid its 
ruins while corn and cotton grow in its once busy streets.  It is to be hoped 
that the history of Danville will not be repeated in the case of any other town 
in Sumter County, certainly not Americus. – Americus Times-Recorder



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