Sometime ago we were discussing this book. I don't have it but do have a printout of the Sand Hill section. I thought it might be helpful--and fun--to print out some of the names here. Maybe some of you familiar with the names and places here can chime in--and we might build a picture of the community--or add the names of your families that were in Sand Hill early on but aren't mentioned here. Maybe those who own the whole book can do other communities. My personal comments are in [brackets]. Karen Dale - ---------------------------- Sand Hill--located about 7 1/2 miles northeast of Carrollton on Highway 61--this was known as the Bankhead Highway during WWII. [It was the route many a military convoy took from Birmingham to Atlanta.] The area is also called Five Points [in fact, I think I slipped and called it that not long ago in a post to this list] because five roads come together here: roads to Hulett, Villa Rica, Carrollton, Temple and Cross Plains. According to Radford Hamrick in the 1968 Carroll Co Quarterly, the Old Brush Arbvor Courthouse was situated in the Sand Hill area. One Superior court was held there with Judge Walter T. COLQUITT presiding before the court was removed to Carrollton, 1830. In the late 1830s, a cotton gin on the Hulett Road was run by Lent EMBRY and Bob BENEFIELD. [note: I wonder if Lent Embry was really one of the HEMBREES who can be found in early census records and were there as late as the 1950s?] South of the gin there was a blacksmith shop operated by Seb and Eif HARPER. Ben CARROLL stated that his father, John Workman CARROLL and grandfather, James Moses CARROLL had a shop in the Sand Hill area where they made hats for soldiers in the Civil War. Macedonia Baptist Church, about 1/4 mile from Sand Hill, was established July 15, 1847. Charter members: Leroy MCWHORTER, Johnson H. MCWHORTER, Isaac KINNEY [second wife Martha Garst, my 3rd great aunt], Elizabeth JORDAN, Margaret MCCRAE, William JORDON, William NEELEY, Rebecca NEELEY, Mary MCWHORTER, Tabitha PAULSTON. Rev. Leroy MCWHORTER was first pastor and William F. JORDON the first ordained deacon. [I'll bet Jordon was pronounced Jerdon! There were still "Jerdons" in the area in the 1950s.] Temperance Methodist Church is about 1/4 mile south of Sand Hill on Highway 61. Allen EADY gave land (June 25, 1853) Trustees then were W.F.S. POWELL, W.F. BROWN, J.K. BROWNING, James N. [sic] GARST and A.J. ADERHOLT. [James Marion GARST was born Carroll Co. 1833; the 1860 census lists his occupations as Phrenologist--they read bumps on the head--like reading palms! He served in the CSA and died in the veterans home in Atlanta, 1916. This in an interesting entry because the Carroll Co. Garsts were all Baptists--four generations of them are buried at Macedonia and the patriarch, Christopher Garst was pastor there.] That's about all of the early material from the book.