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Ever wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone's throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can't be...that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can't help pondering the seemingly endless supply of head-scratching place names that dot this state. Luckily, the intrepid Cathy Kaemmerlen stands ready to unravel the enigmas--Enigma is, in fact, a Georgia town--behind the state's most astonishing appellations. Cow Hell, Gum Pond, Boxankle and Lord a Mercy Cove? One town owes its name to a random sign that fell off a railcar, while another memorializes a broken bone suffered by a cockfight spectator. And just how many place names were inspired by insolent mules? Come on in to find out.

During World War II, many Georgians witnessed the enemy in their backyards. More than twelve thousand German and Italian prisoners captured in far-off battlefields were sent to POW camps in Georgia. With large base camps located from Camp Wheeler in Macon and Camp Stewart in Savannah to smaller camps throughout the state, prisoner reeducation and work programs evoked different reactions to the enemy. There was even a POW work detail of forty German soldiers at Augusta National Golf Course, which was changed from a temporary cow pasture to the splendid golf course we know today. Join author and historian Dr. Kathryn Roe Coker and coauthor Jason Wetzel as they explore the daily lives of POWs in Georgia and the lasting impact they had on the Peach State.

Travel in old Virginia was many things, but it was never dull. Stagecoaches were the primary means of transport, carrying mail as well as passengers. Trips that now take hours lasted for days. Coach trips could be dangerous, and all-hands situations arose quickly. A traveler might need to apply horsemanship, carpentry, leather-mending or the sheer brawny effort of shoving the coach out of a muddy ditch. Inns across the state catered to stagecoach riders and acted as community gathering places. Some still stand, like the Rising Sun Tavern in Fredericksburg and Michie Tavern in Charlottesville. Author Virginia Johnson relates tales of those wild early days on the road.

New settlements require proper resting places for their dead. Around 1763, British troops officially gained control of Baton Rouge and established a small fort on the Mississippi River there. However, since 1719, soldiers and white explorers had been buried near Native American mounds. Baton Rouge citizens were buried in the military cemetery near the fort, which accommodated Protestants; on private property; in Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery, opened in 1792; and in Highland Cemetery, so named in 1819. These downtown cemeteries had overflowed by 1850. A municipal, nondenominational cemetery was critically needed. Land on the eastern edge of town, dotted with magnolia trees, was purchased by the government, and Magnolia Cemetery easily became its name. Families of all races, religious affiliations, and economic status rest in Magnolia. Confederate and Union soldiers died there on August 5, 1862, and some became permanent residents. Historic Magnolia Cemetery's subterranean graves are accentuated by plain or elaborate headstones or simple footstones, sarcophagi, and numerous statues.

By: Michael A. Ports, Pub. 2020, Vol. 7, (1809-1850): 220 pages, soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-420-4. Elbert County was formed in 1790 from Wilkes County. It lies in the Northeasern portion of the state along the Savannah River just across from Anderson and Abbeville Counties, South Carolina. The first settlers started arriving in the area from Virgina and the Carolinas and continued on as land grants were being issued from service in the Revolutionary War. Contrary to the microfilm heading, the records are NOT court minutes; but rather are the records concerning roads and bridges. The records include the orders appointing road commissioners and overseers, petitions to construct new roads and bridges or alter existing ones, and the reports of commissioners regarding the efficacy and public utility of newly proposed roadsand bridges or alterations or repairs to existing ones.

By: Golden F. Burgner, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2020, 212 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-205-8. This book contains 5,486 land grants issued by the State of North Carolina in the State of Tennessee. The counties in which this land fell were: Davidson, Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Sumner, Tennessee, Washington, and the eastern, Middle and Western districts.

A 200 year history of the City of Springfield, Robertson County, Tennessee. Written by Dr. Rick Gregory, who holds a PHD in History from Vanderbilt University. Co-authored by Yolanda Reid, who has served as Robertson County Historian since 1989. Hard cover, fully indexed, with old and new photographs.

By: John Newton Harman, Pub. 1922, Reprinted 2020, 655 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #0-89308-956-7. Until now, this book has ben extremely difficult to use for research due to its lack of a through and complete INDEX. We have created a brand new FULL NAME Index that contains the names of approximately 12,000 persons. Tazewell County was formed in 1799 from Wythe and Russell Counties. Volume II continues the principal features of Volume I from 1853, with marriage records to 1868; the names of all devisers and devisees of wills to 1924; lists of Tazewell soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I; various court orders; and a fairly complete list of Tazewell churches and church officers in 1924. The concluding 250 pages of the book, moreover, consist of lengthy genealogies of pioneer families of Tazewell County: Bandy, Barnes, Baldwin, Bowen, Chapman, Colulling, Copenhaver, Crockett, Deskins, Fields, George, Gillespie, Gose, Graham, Graybeal, Greear, Greever, Hankins, Harman, Harrison, Higginbotham, Holmes, Hopkins, Johnston, Laird, Leese, Linkous, Litz, Lockhart, May, Mays, Martin, Maxwell, McGuire, Moore, Moss, Mustard, Peery, St. Claire, Stras, Sparks, Thompson, Tynes, Ward, Whitley, Whitten, Witten, Williams, Wohlford, Yost, and Young.

By: John Newton Harman, Pub. 1922, Reprinted 2020, 488 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #0-89308-955-9. Until now, this book has ben extremely difficult to use for research due to its lack of a through and complete INDEX. We have created a brand new FULL NAME Index that contains the names of approximately 11,000 persons. Tazewell County was formed in 1799 from Wythe and Russell Counties. This volume contains abstracts of court orders, wills, and deeds; the names of all civil and military officers of the county; all lawyers admitted to the bar; all preachers licensed to celebrate the rites of matrimony and an exact copy of the Tazewell marriage registers from 1800 to 1852; every deed made to churches of all denominations from 1800 to 1922; the names of all Tazewell representatives in the General Assembly of Virginia from 1800 to 1852; and a list of Revolutionary Pensioners.

Manteo embraces the northern part of Roanoke Island, the historic island inset from North Carolina's Outer Banks. It is best known as the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's first settlement in the New World. In the early 1800s, the town was a small, unnamed fis

Spine title: Greene County guardians & orphans court records, 1783-1870, and 1830 tax list.

This work was written and researched by A. M. Brooks, who was born as Abbie M. Brooks, but also wrote as Sylvia Sunshine. She wrote a great deal about Florida, including the work, Petals Plucked From Sunny Climes, which is a highly acclaimed and well researched account of the Florida area prior to the 1870s. This work, The Unwritten History of St. Augustine, is the culmination of a very daunting task, going through five huge volumes of records regarding the development of Florida found in the archives in Seville, Spain. Yet, for all of her hard work, little is known about the life and history of A. M. Brooks. Perhaps ironically, she was always tracking the past, but leaving very little of her own behind, save for her writings.

A collection of essays from the most Midwest Southern city

By: Michael A. Ports, Pub. 2020, Vol. 2, (1800-1804, part #1): 332 pages, soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-973-7. Elbert County was formed in 1790 from Wilkes County. It lies in the Northeasern portion of the state along the Savannah River just across from Anderson and Abbeville Counties, South Carolina. The first settlers started arriving in the area from Virgina and the Carolinas and continued on as land grants were being issued from service in the Revolutionary War. The Inferior Court tried any civil case except those involving title to land. The court had jurisdiction over county business matters, such as care for the poor, building and maintaining the courthouse, jails, roads bridges and ferries, issuing liquor licenses, nominating justices of the peace, performing naturalizations, appointing guardians, authorizing apprenticeships & indentures, maintaining a register of wills and administering county funds. The Clerk of the Inferior Court kept minutes of the foregoing proceedings--every one of which places individuals in Elbert County at a particular point in time