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Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Settlements
Fargo, a town in Clinch county, is
on the Georgia Southern &
Florida railroad, not far from the Echols county line.
It has a money order postoffice, express and
telegraph service, some mercantile interests and is a shipping point of
considerable
importance. The population in 1900 was
277.
[Source: Georgia:
Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2,
Publ.
1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]
Homerville, the county seat
of Clinch county, is located on the main division of the Atlantic Coast
Line
railway system, formerly known as the Atlantic & Gulf railroad. By
act of
the general assembly in 1852 the town of Magnolia
was made the county seat of Clinch county, the name at that time being
changed
from “Polk.” In 1860 another act of the legislature authorized the
removal of
the county offices to “Station Number Eleven” on the Atlantic &
Gulf
railroad, where Homerville was incorporated in 1869, the charter being
amended
in 1896. The old town of “Magnolia” no longer appears upon the map,
though a
militia district still retains the name. Homerville has a money order
postoffice, with rural free delivery, express and telegraph offices, a
bank,
several good mercantile establishments, a large lumber and naval stores
trade, and
a sugar refinery. The population of the town in 1900 was 434 and of the
district 1,039.
(Source: Georgia Sketches
of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and
Persons, VOL II, by Candler
& Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
