This came off the Peach Co site and since this is really in Houston at this time thought some of y`all might enjoy reading it. I`m going to send two more. Enjoy Sandra >Thank you, Marilyn Windham for this information on the history of Bryon. > >Bryon > > Published in the Leader-Tribune January 29, 1939. Copied by permision >from the Home Journal, > published in Perry GA on October 6, 1881 > >The subject of this article was first known as Jackson > station, and is yet called Jackson by many of the S.W.R.R. officials. It >was simply a half station and a > wood rack kept by Mr. Nimrod Jackson in 1851, hence the name Jackson. It >remained simply a wood > station surrounded by a dense forest and reached by one highway and a few >dim roads until 1860 when > the first store house was built by Mr. William Hays and occupied by Mr. >Seaborn Hartley, who did a > general merchandise business in it. > > During the same year a post office was established here name Byron. But >to this time the axman had > felled but few of the members of the forest here, the surroundings being >pretty much as nature had > formed them. > > In the year 1867 the second store house was erected by Dr. C.H. >Richardson. It was then, or about that > time, that those residing here and in the vicinity began to discuss the >probability and possibility of a > town being built here. Some looked on the enterprise with favor, while >others entertained the idea that > such a project could not and never would be accomplished, but in spite of >all opposition and drawbacks > the infant town continued to grow slowly but steadily and substantially in >population and business till it > has grown to be the third town in size in Houston County [1881] and has a >population of 300, 160 of > whom are white, and about 140 colored. > > During the session of the legislature of 1874, application was made to >have the town incorporated, and > the same was incorporated, under the post office name of Byron. Thomas >Sander, T.B. Goff, T.D. > Warren, J.C. Parrott, and C.H. Richardson were appointed >commissioners of the town. > > Byron is situated on a beautiful prominence, the hightest point between >Macon and Vicksburg, is > perfectly healthy, surrounded by a large belt of fine, productive farming >lands, owned by an industrious, > progressive, solid and successful agricultural people, and has several >handsome residences and many > pretty cottages. It has also many beautiful oak groves, shade trees, >flower gardens, lawns, etc. > > It lies directly on the S.W.R.R. 17 miles from macon, 18 miles from >Knowville, county site of > Crawford County, 4 miles from Crawford line, 15 miles from Perry, county >site of Houston County, 12 > miles from Fort Valley, accessible by railroad, and is penetrated by six >public highways leading from > different points. > > Property here is ready sale when put on the market at a fair price. >Rents are also a fair price. The >demand usually exceeds the supply. Lands in the surrounding country sell >for from $7 to $20 per acres. >Virginia