#4 This is the last installment of a four-part article written by Mr. Cadle. He has transcribed these old letters and followed the original spellings. Note: An 1826 account describes Dublin as consisting of a courthouse and nine houses. In a later portion of her letters, not reproduced here, Mrs. Hine mentions having lunch with former Georgia governor George M. Troup, whose plantation was near Dublin. I am very much disappointed in Dublin. I did not think I was expecting much, but I had supposed it to be more than it is. There are but two or three framed dwellings in the place--the rest are all log buildings--and only two houses that have ever been painted. One of these is brother's, and the other shows but few vestiges of the paint which was once put upon it. The court house, which stands in the middle of the square, is an old, dilapidated wooden building, small, and guiltless of ceiling as well as paint, and looks as if it might have stood for ages. Brother hired a young man from Connecticut last summer as a clerk. He came out to Savannah with some friends. On reaching there he decided, instead of coming up in the stage, he would come in a cotton wagon which would pass through Dublin and was coming up empty. He got out at the Oconee River, which the wagon crossed on a flat, and decided not to get in again, but to walk up to Dublin, which they told him was about a quarter of a mile from there, and he would see the court house directly. He walked on up, and came into the store and asked if they would show him the way to Dublin. They told him he was in the heart of the town, which he contested, thinking they were joking; said he was told he would pass a court house, and he had not. Imagine his disgust when they pointed out the building to him. It did not at all comport with his New England ideas of a court house. But although this place is so insignificant, it has some few nice families in it, and some very delightful ones on surrounding plantations. (Farris Cadle grew up in Swainsboro. He is a land title and land boundary consultant in Savannah and does research on the side.) The Forest-Blade, Swainsboro, GA -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 46009 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

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Olivia, These are fantastic.  Thank you so much for sharing them.  I enjoyed reading them so very much.  Things like this give me such an insight into the life of my ancestors.  I would love to see more of this type thing on the board :) Thanks again Michelle Jones