The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, Feb. 21, 1896 In the year 1834 Capt. A.S. Allen, then a boy on his fathers farm near Zebulon, stuck a mulberry sprout into the ground. At the time, the sprout was not larger than a lead pencil and had been used by the boy as an ox goad. Today it is a tree almost nineteen feet in circumference at a distance of two feet from the ground and is said to be the largest mulberry tree in Georgia. (Transcribed 11/17/02 Lynn Cunningham)