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Thomas County, Georgia Towns, Hamlets and Villages Meigs, a town in the northwestern part of Thomas county, is located on a branch of the Atlantic Coast Line railway between Thomasville and Albany. It was incorporated by act of the legislature in 1889, and in 1900, it had in its corporate limits 617 inhabitants, and in its entire district 1,252. It is the shipping point for a considerable section of the county and deals in lumber, turpentine, rosin and sugar-cane syrup. It has a money order postoffice with rural free delivery, express and telegraph offices, a bank, a number of stores having a good country trade, and the people have all the advantages derived from schools and churches. (Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler) Merrillville, a post-village of Thomas county, is a station on the Fitzgerald & Thomasville division of the Atlantic & Birmingham railroad, and is about twelve miles northeast of Thomasville. It was incorporated by act of the legislature on Dec. 16, 1902. [Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,  Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister] Glasgow, a post-hamlet of Thomas county, is located about eight miles southeast of Thomasville.  The nearest railway station is Metcalf, on the Atlantic Coast Line. (Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore) ©2007 Genealogy Trails