--part1_4.da6277.25c332d0_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_4.da6277.25c332d0_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <GAJONES-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:42:53 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:42:39 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA03872; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:41:04 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:41:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000128113708.01135d30@216.178.132.10> X-Sender: crilley@216.178.132.10 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:37:08 -0600 Old-To: GAJONES-L@rootsweb.com From: Crilley <crilley@eramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [GAJONES] Clinton History Resent-Message-ID: <6g-Iu.A.w7.uSdk4@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: GAJONES-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: GAJONES-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <GAJONES-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/385 X-Loop: GAJONES-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: GAJONES-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bl-11.rootsweb.com id JAA03872 Thanks to Barbara who abstracted a very interesting history of the town of Clinton. If you're just starting your research in Jones County, this will make you appreciate the development much more!! Copied with permission from=20 =93History of Jones Co., GA by Carolyn White Williams Typed by Barbara S. CLINTON Clinton, which was first called Albany was the county seat and is situated near the center of the=20 county 22 miles southwest of the capital of Milledgeville, 14 miles from Macon, 25 miles from=20 Forsyth, 23 miles from Monticello, 28 miles from Irwinton and 28 from Marion. It had a=20 courthouse, a jail, a Methodist and Baptist church, male and female academies, three taverns,=20 several boardinghouses, stores, a tannery and mechanics shops. The town was healthy and was=20 incorporated in 1816. The town was named for Gov. DeWitt CLINTON of New York, who=20 figured prominently in politics at that time and who probably came to Clinton in company with=20 Gen. LaFayette at the time of his well remembered visit there.=20 Unlike other small towns, Clinton did not grow in a haphazard manner. The village was laid out=20 in 1811 with a square upon which the courthouse was built. The town grew up around it with the=20 whole laid off in lots in a neat manner. The lot of land on which Clinton was built containing=20 202-1/2 acres was bought from Thomas JOHNSON by the Judges of the Inferior Court and the=20 sale of lots paid for the courthouse. To a sturdy band of pioneers and settlers who back in 1807 came into a wilderness of Indian=20 country to build up a civilization and a peaceful agricultural life, we owe much. Clinton was=20 designated in 1809 as the capi