http://www.fitzgeraldga.org/hist.html The land was purchased from 1880 till 1895 from the Drew brothers who operated a turpentine distillery in Irwin County. The Drew brothers owned most of the land in that area where the town of Fitzgerald was built. See what I am adding to the county pages...below...but as I said the other day..the typing is going slow as my hands and wrist are in a lot of pain..when not typing I wear braces on each hand/wrist..for the Carpal Tunnel and the Ulnar Nerve compression...guess will have to have surgery now...even though I don't want to...at one time I had it all online and the civil war soldiers and also the voters for Ben Hill County...1907 and 1908...but had problems witht he pc after I got it ready to upload the pc crashed and we lost everything...so now we are not going to let that happen again as everything is backed up...Gloria http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gholback/irweb/colcom1.htm