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 Montgomery County, Georgia
Towns, Hamlets and Villages

Glenwood, a village of Montgomery county, is a station on the Seaboard Air Line railroad, about five miles southwest of Mount Vernon.  It has a money order post office, which delivers mail to the surrounding district, telegraph and express offices, school, churches, stores which do a good local business, and does considerable shipping. The population in 1900 was 275.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore)

Higgston, a village of Montgomery county, with a population of 223 in 1900, is on the Seaboard Air Line railway, a short distance west of Vidalia. It has a money order postoffice, express and telegraph service, a school, churches, mercantile establishments and does some shipping.
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Angelia Carpenter)

McGregor, a post-village of Montgomery county, is located on the Seaboard Air Line railway, about half-way between Vidalia and Mount Vernon,
and in 1900 reported a population of 64.  It is a trading center for the neighborhood and has some shipping interests.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,  Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]

Lothair, a village in the northern part of Montgomery county, reported a population of 160 in 1900.
 It is a short distance south of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah railroad, upon which there is a station of the same name.
 It has a money order postoffice and is a trading center for that portion of the county.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)




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