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Georgia Genealogy Trails "Where your Journey Begins" |
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Georgia Genealogy Trails "Where your Journey Begins" |
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Quitman County GA Towns, Hamlets and Villages Georgetown, the
county seat of Quitman county, is located on the Chattahoochee river,
on the western border of the county, and was incorporated by an act of
the general assembly in 1859. It has railway accommodations
through a branch of the Central of Georgia, and in addition to this the
steamers that ply on the Chattahoochee furnish water transportation,
thus giving Georgetown excellent shipping facilities.
Consequently for a town of its size it has an extensive trade, fully 75
per cent of the cotton handled in the county being shipped from
Georgetown. The town has good public schools, several churches,
express and telegraph offices, a money order post office with rural
free delivery, a good court house, several mercantile concerns and
large warehouses. The population in 1900 was 248. Hatcher
Station, a post-village of Quitman county,
is located about six miles southeast of Georgetown, on the Central of
Georgia railroad. It has express and telegraph offices, some mercantile
and shipping interests, and in 1900 reported a population of
62.
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