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Georgia Genealogy Trails
"Where your Journey Begins"
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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)