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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rs: number of acres, 2,667;value, $17,045; merchandise, $50; money, $375; household furniture,$10,650; farm and other animals, $15,546; plantation and mechanicaltools, $4,097; value of all other property, $1,193. Aggregate value ofwhole property, $48,979. The tax returns for 1901 show a gain of $26,890 in the value of allproperty since the returns of 1900. Population of Oconee county by sex and color, according to the cen-sus of 1900: white males, 2,083; white females, 2,106; total white,4,189; colored males, 2,199; colored females, 2,214; total colored, 4.413. Domestic animals in bams and inclosures, not on farms or ranges,June 1, 1900: 16 calves, 1 steer, 38 dairy cows, 20 horses, 3 mules, 41swine. OGLETHORPE COimTY. Oglethorpe County was laid out in 1793. A part was taken fromGreene in 1794. The boundories were somewhat ehnnsrprl in 1799. whenparts of Oglethorpe were added to Greene, and parts of Greene to Ogle-thorpe. A part was set off to Madison county in 1811, and a portion was
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VVICKSON. This plum stands pre-eminent amon^; all plums in its rare combination of y.ood qualitii-s.color of the fruit is dark crimson upon a yellow ground. Ripens just after Burbank.Will keep two weeks or more after ripening. Don I fail to try llickson. The GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 781 taken from Clarke in 1813. Another part was set oS to Taliaferro in1825, and a part added to Madison county in 1831. This county wasnamed for General James Edward Oglethorpe, one of the founders andthe lirst governor of Georgia. It is bounded on the north by Madisoncounty, northeast by Elbert, on the east by AVilkes, on the southeast byWilkes and Taliaferro, south by Greene and west by Clarke and Oconee.Broad river separates the county from Elbert, and the Oconee riverforms a part of its western boundary. Little river is in the southeasternpart of the county. Other streams are: Long, Clouds, Dry Fork, Big,Buffalo, Indian, Beaver Dam and Falling creeks. Although there are so many streams, the

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