Thank You so much for sharing this with us, I hope you don`t mind if I share it with the Peach co site. Anyone else have some fun information like this? Sandra >I thought you might like to know that this same James A Everett went to the >Methodist Conference in Augusta in 1840 and with Colonel Campbell petitioned >the Conference (presided over by Bishop Morris) to provide their plantations >with a "missionary to preach to their colored people". They promised $100 >for the support of the missionary. James Dunwody was appointed to be that >missionary. He had four preaching places, two plantations belonging to >Everett, one above Ft Valley the other near Hog Crawl Creek, one for Col >Campbell and the last for Russell Flewellen on Flint River. He states that >results warranted his preaching for five continuous years. > > >In a message dated 06/10/2000 4:28:18 PM Central Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< 1820s a trading post was built in what is now downtown Fort Valley. James > >Abbington Everett, a North > >Carolinian, established a trading post because of two Indian trails that > >crossed here. One trail went from > >Fort Hawkins in Macon to Barnard's Crossing (now Oglethorpe). The other ran > >from Benjamin > >Hawkin's Creek Indian Agency on the Flint River to Old Hartford, which was > >across the Ocmulgee > >River at what is today Hawkinsville. > > > >Everett named the little village that was growing around the trading post, > >Fort Valley after his good > >friend, Arthur Fort, who was a Revolutionary War Veteran and a legislator > >from Milledgeville. > > > >Everett was also responsible for getting the railroad through Fort Valley. > >Although he died before the > >first train ran, he gave this area a gift which was the way to market > >peaches. > > >> > > >==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== >Visit Houston Co., GAGenWeb, the parent site for >this list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahousto/ >and check out the offerings