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Jeff
Davis
County,
Georgia  Welcome to the Genealogy Trails
website for Jeff Davis County, Georgia.
Towns, Hamlets and Villages Graham,
a village of Jeff Davis county, is located on the line of the Southern
railway, about half-way between Hazlehurst and Baxley. It has a
money order post office, express and telegraph service, school and
church privileges, some mercantile interests and is a shipping point of
some importance. The population in 1900 was 290.
Hinson, a post-hamlet in
the southwestern part of Jeff Davis county, is located on Big Hurricane
creek, about eleven miles from Hazlehurst, which is the most convenient
railroad station.(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore Hazlehurst, the county seat of the new county of Jeff Davis, is located on the line of the Southern railway which connects Macon and Brunswick. It was incorporated by act of the legislature in 1891, has a money order post-office with rural free delivery, telegraph and express offices, a bank, several successful business houses, while in the town and vicinity are saw mills and turpentine distilleries. Its growing importance caused its selection as the county seat of a new county. It had by the census of 1900 a population of 793, and is well supplied with church and school privileges. (Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter) (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) McDew, a post-hamlet in Jeff Davis county, is about eight miles west of Hazlehurst, which is the most convenient railroad station. [Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]
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