Bryan County, GA History The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People 1732 to 1860 by George Gillman Smith, D.D. Originally published c. 1901 Submitted by K. Torp, ©2007 BRYAN Bryan, which was named in honor of Joseph Bryan , was cut off from Effingham and Liberty.(Note: The county was actually named for Jonathan Bryan, not Joseph) In the neck between the rivers there was fine rice land and a few planters had plantations in it, but the area of fertile land was very limited, and the main body of the county was flat and sterile pine woods. In 1850 there were no schools in the county except a few supported by the poor school fund. In common with all that section of the State, great changes were brought about by the war, and Bryan has shared in the prosperity the new era has brought in.     Town and Village, Histories Keller, a post-village in the southeastern part of Bryan county, reported a population of 43 in 1900. Limerick, on the Seaboard Air Line, is the nearest railroad station. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister) Malden Branch, a post-village of Bryan county, reported a population of 62 in 1900. It is a little south of the Seaboard Air Line railway, about three miles east of Lanier, which is the nearest railroad station. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) ©2007 Genealogy Trails