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Pike County, Georgia
Towns, Hamlets and Villages
| Hollenville, a village of Pike
county, is located about six miles west of Williamson, which is the
nearest railroad town. It has a money order postoffice and some
mercantile interests. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) Maggie, a post-hamlet of Pike county, is on the Flint river, six or seven miles west of Reidsboro, which is the most convenient railroad station. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) Meansville, an incorporated town of Pike county, is on the Southern railroad, about five miles south of Zebulon, and in 1900 reported a population of 155. It has a money order postoffice, with rural free delivery, express and telegraph offices, mercantile and manufacturing enterprises, and is an important shipping point. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) Milner, an incorporated town of Pike county, is on the Central of Georgia railway, about six miles north of Barnesville. The population in 1900 was 445. It has a money order postoffice, from which a number of rural free delivery routes supply mail to the surrounding country, express and telegraph offices, good mercantile establishments, some factories, schools churches, etc., and is one of the best shipping points between Griffin and Macon. [Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] |
