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Banks Co Town Sketches
Hollingsworth, a
village of Banks county, is located about four
miles southeast of Alto, which is the nearest railroad station. It has
schools,
churches and some mercantile interests, and in 1900 reported a
population of
101.
Homer,
located a little
south of the center of Bank county, of which it is the county seat, was
incorporated by act of the legislature in 1859 and its charter was
amended in
1897. It is several miles distant from the nearest railroad, a branch
of the
Southern, which runs along the western border of the county. Homer has
a
population of 221. It has a court house, post office, and several
stores.
Jewellville, a post-town in the eastern part of Banks county, reported a population of 103 in 1900. Alto and Maysville, each about twelve miles distant, are the nearest railroad stations. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)
Maysville, a town of northeast Georgia, partly in Banks and partly in Jackson county, is on a branch of the Southern railway connecting Athens with Lula. It was incorporated by act of the legislature in 1879, and in 1900 had a population of 453, of whom 309 lived in Banks county and the rest in Jackson. It has express telegraph offices, a money order postoffice with rural free delivery, a bank, several good commercial houses, schools and churches, and an oil mill doing an active and profitable business. (Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans,
Publ. 1906. Transcribed
by Kim Mohler)
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