>Thank you, Marilyn Windham for this history of Fort Valley. > >Fort Valley > >In 1821 Georgia had another land lottery and out of this action was created >Houston County. In the >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. > >Fort Valley was incorporated in 1856. >Virginia