UPSON COUNTY, GA - HISTORY  MEMORIES I Remember  2002

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Hartford Pryor

Mr. Pryor writes a column each month for the Upson Historical Society Newsletter.


MAY 2001
I was reminded some time ago oF
how Bulldog Curve on Highway 19
South, got its name. In the late 20's anD
30's it was a very popular name because
it was a very bad curve and there were a
lot of automobile wrecks there. It was
not paved until the 1930's. Over thi
years,  it  has  been  rebuilt  and
straightened. Some of the curve is still
there in the twelve hundred black south
of town near the Southside Baptis
Church and the old abandoned WSFT
radio station building. Now, how did it
get its name?   I called Mr. Bufon
Thompson of 218 Denham Road who is
82 years old and he told me the story. On
the old Mill Village in East Thomaston
there was a lady that claimed she was fortune teller by the name of Mrs. Seth
Whitman. She had a bulldog and it died
and she was "gonna" get rid of it by
throwing it in the woods south of
Thomaston. When she drove south of
town, she had a wreck on this sharp curve
and was killed.   It has been called
Bulldog Curve ever since.

I remember how in the late 1940'
Rev. Herbert Morgan was pastor of thi
East Thomaston Baptist Church; and hi
loved to hold tent revivals. He becami
good friends with Mr. Rob Hightower, so
Thomaston Mills gave Bro. Morgan a big
tent. At this point in time, the Assembi'
of God was enlarging a house near thi
south end of Five Points into a church
building. They were using the building
and working on it at the same time. One
day a wall collapsed. Rev. Morgan then
loaned them his tent which they used
until they could get their building ready.

I remember during the 1930's a lot
of people raised chickens and there was
Bird's-eye feed store on the Square. The
bags were made of printed matenaerial.