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Newspaper
Cedartown Record
Location
Cedartown, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1876
Page
2
The item warns against rushing to the Black Hills for gold amid harsh, barren conditions and war parties. It promotes the Louisiana State Lottery drawing offering 502,600 in gold and urges buying tickets. It notes deaths, local newspaper changes in Atlanta, pardons petitions, swindler warnings, and an unhappy Port Royal excursion report.
A reminiscence tracing Cedartown from 1841, noting land ownership, early merchants like Simmons and Bigelow, the absence of railroads, high prices, and depreciated money. It records a 1842 school in the oil Academy taught by Col Mosely, the single church, lack of physicians and lawyers, and Cedartown becoming county seat around 1852 63 with growth in stores professionals and churches. It also mentions demographic shifts and the transition of race relations before and after the war.
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