June 27, 1912.
For the last year or so you have been reading in this column about the building of a new railroad in 1912, The Wrightsville, Adrian & Lyons Railway. It seems that it was running into some road blocks. The following two part series is from the 1912 Headlight as supporters of the road make their case for the benefits of building the railroad.
Wrightsville, the county site of Johnson County, with a population of 1,600, is situated on the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad, 17 miles south of Tennille, and 20 miles north of Dublin, being centrally located between these two points, and with a vast territory on the east and west side, and in one of the finest farming and lumbering sections in middle Georgia.
She enjoys an enormous trade for a town of her size, and a large traffic in agricultural and forest products. She has general merchandise stores, two furniture stores, two hardware stores, two meat markets, three drug stores, three cotton warehouses, three gins and three thriving banks. She also boasts of two of the best little hotels in Georgia, besides several boarding houses, which add convience and pleasure to the traveling public. Wrightsville is also noted for her religeous environments. She has three white and two colored churches, and Warthen College.
The water works and electric light plant, recently installed by the city, adds to the comfort. While the town has never made much progress in manufacturing enterprises, still with the present outlook for a new railroad, which is to be built from Milledgeville to Brunswick, via Wrightsville, and which has already been practically graded from here to Lyons, in Toombs County. Georgia has many manufacturing plants, such as guano factories, cotton oil mills, cotton compresses, etc. are planned. With the advantages brought to her people through this railroad, in freight rates and general traffic conviences, many establishments of this kind will soon spring up.
With thousands of acres of yellow pine timber and hardwood, lying around her boarders, with splendid farms already in operation, she has bright prospects for permanat traffic. Five saw mills and two turpentine stills shipping from this point are already in operation with scarce railroad facilities, and extremely high freight rates. Others are being contemplated and will be built immediately after the W. A. & L. Railroad is in operation.
Wrightsville is located in a high and healthy locality, with a mild climate. She has in the city limits, as fine artesian water as can be had anywhere in Georgia. Idylwild is one of the finest picnic grounds in this section, two miles south of town on the Big Ohoopee River, which with its beautifully shaded grounds, pavillions and artesian water, various amusements that attract people from all sections of the state. Two miles west of town, near the new line, on the Big Ohoopee is one of the finest natural mineral springs which will soon open as a health resort.
Places on the new line are Sumner's Station, seven miles southeast of town is in the midst of hundreds of acres of yellow pine, oak, poplar, ash, hickory, sweet gum, cypress, etc. It has one sawmill, turpentine still, cotton gin and general store. Next is Smith's Station, five miles further down the line with big beautiful farmlands and yellow pine. Then Adrian, at the junction of the Brewton & Pinora, and the Wadley Southern railroads, with a population of 800, it has ten general stores, two furniture stores, two hardware stores, three drug stores, two meat markets, a cotton gin, warehouse, two banks, electric light plant and waterworks, a good hotel and a good brick school for whites and one for the colored. Lumbering and farming are its chief industries. Several sawmills, with Adrian as their shipping point, are already located.
Gillis' Springs, less than three years old, is located ten miles northwest of Oak Park and would be on the main line. It has millions of feet of the finest original growth of yellow pine timber and hardwoods anywhere in Georgia. It is also noted for its fine mineral water. A $10,000 hotel has recently opened here. Many thousands of gallons of water are being shipped from here by wagons. Coleman, the next station will be six miles from Gillis' Springs. It will supply lumber, ties, naval stores and farm products. Oak Park will be at the junction of this line and the Georgia, and Florida Railroad. While this is a new place, it has four general stores, one drug store, one cotton gin, one sawmill and one turpentine still.
For the last year or so you have been reading in this column about the building of a new railroad in 1912, The Wrightsville, Adrian & Lyons Railway. It seems that it was running into some road blocks. The following two part series is from the 1912 Headlight as supporters of the road make their case for the benefits of building the railroad.
Wrightsville, the county site of Johnson County, with a population of 1,600, is situated on the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad, 17 miles south of Tennille, and 20 miles north of Dublin, being centrally located between these two points, and with a vast territory on the east and west side, and in one of the finest farming and lumbering sections in middle Georgia.
She enjoys an enormous trade for a town of her size, and a large traffic in agricultural and forest products. She has general merchandise stores, two furniture stores, two hardware stores, two meat markets, three drug stores, three cotton warehouses, three gins and three thriving banks. She also boasts of two of the best little hotels in Georgia, besides several boarding houses, which add convience and pleasure to the traveling public. Wrightsville is also noted for her religeous environments. She has three white and two colored churches, and Warthen College.
The water works and electric light plant, recently installed by the city, adds to the comfort. While the town has never made much progress in manufacturing enterprises, still with the present outlook for a new railroad, which is to be built from Milledgeville to Brunswick, via Wrightsville, and which has already been practically graded from here to Lyons, in Toombs County. Georgia has many manufacturing plants, such as guano factories, cotton oil mills, cotton compresses, etc. are planned. With the advantages brought to her people through this railroad, in freight rates and general traffic conviences, many establishments of this kind will soon spring up.
With thousands of acres of yellow pine timber and hardwood, lying around her boarders, with splendid farms already in operation, she has bright prospects for permanat traffic. Five saw mills and two turpentine stills shipping from this point are already in operation with scarce railroad facilities, and extremely high freight rates. Others are being contemplated and will be built immediately after the W. A. & L. Railroad is in operation.
Wrightsville is located in a high and healthy locality, with a mild climate. She has in the city limits, as fine artesian water as can be had anywhere in Georgia. Idylwild is one of the finest picnic grounds in this section, two miles south of town on the Big Ohoopee River, which with its beautifully shaded grounds, pavillions and artesian water, various amusements that attract people from all sections of the state. Two miles west of town, near the new line, on the Big Ohoopee is one of the finest natural mineral springs which will soon open as a health resort.
Places on the new line are Sumner's Station, seven miles southeast of town is in the midst of hundreds of acres of yellow pine, oak, poplar, ash, hickory, sweet gum, cypress, etc. It has one sawmill, turpentine still, cotton gin and general store. Next is Smith's Station, five miles further down the line with big beautiful farmlands and yellow pine. Then Adrian, at the junction of the Brewton & Pinora, and the Wadley Southern railroads, with a population of 800, it has ten general stores, two furniture stores, two hardware stores, three drug stores, two meat markets, a cotton gin, warehouse, two banks, electric light plant and waterworks, a good hotel and a good brick school for whites and one for the colored. Lumbering and farming are its chief industries. Several sawmills, with Adrian as their shipping point, are already located.
Gillis' Springs, less than three years old, is located ten miles northwest of Oak Park and would be on the main line. It has millions of feet of the finest original growth of yellow pine timber and hardwoods anywhere in Georgia. It is also noted for its fine mineral water. A $10,000 hotel has recently opened here. Many thousands of gallons of water are being shipped from here by wagons. Coleman, the next station will be six miles from Gillis' Springs. It will supply lumber, ties, naval stores and farm products. Oak Park will be at the junction of this line and the Georgia, and Florida Railroad. While this is a new place, it has four general stores, one drug store, one cotton gin, one sawmill and one turpentine still.
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