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Morgan County, Georgia
Towns, Hamlets and Villages
Godfrey, a village of Morgan county, is a station on the Central of Georgia railroad, near the Putnam county line. It has a money order post office, express and telegraph offices, schools, churches, and is a shipping center for the surrounding region. The population in 1900 was 65. (Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore) Madison, the county seat of Morgan county, is located near the center of the county, at the junction of the Atlanta & Augusta division of the Georgia railway and the Macon and Athens line of the Central of Georgia. It was incorporated as a city in 1866 and in 1890 its charter was amended. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the state, being located on a ridge which divides the waters of Hard Labor and Sugar creeks, the former flowing into the Appalachee river and the latter into the Oconee. Besides the county buildings there are express and telegraph service, a money order postoffice with rural free delivery, three banks, a cotton compress, a large flour mill, factories turning out spokes, handles, soap, ice, cotton seed oil, fertilizers, a large creamery, electric light plant, water works and both public and private schools. Madison is the central market for the cotton of a considerable territory, handling as high as 20,000 bales a year in good seasons. Before the war the Methodist and Baptist denominations had each a college for young ladies here. They still have schools of advanced grades, and the Presbyterians have established an institution of similar character. The population in 1900 was 1,992 in the town proper, and that of the entire militia district was 2,888. In 1864 a raid of Federal Cavalry was made through this part of the state and the Madison cotton mills, which were operated by steam power and had been doing successful business for some years, were destroyed by fire. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan) Mallory, a post-hamlet of Morgan county, is about seven miles north of Madison and four southwest of Apalachee, 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) |
