HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK ILLUSTRATED ANDERSON, S. C. -1925- DEDICATION I was born and reared in Baldwin County, which County is the subject of the within little volume. I was a charter member of the Nancy Hart Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and have been to this date an active member of the chapter. My association with these splendid patriotic women, some of whom are now living and some of whom have gone to their last reward, has given me the greatest affection for them personally, and the highest appreciation of their splendid patriotism. In every way they have actively, intelligently, and patriotically sought to keep alive the glorious memories of the distant past. In token of my fond affection for them, I dedicate this little volume to the members of THE NANCY HART CHAPTER DAUGHTERS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION Hist. Anver Gesipa 30738 36040 INTRODUCTION The period of Georgia's history, extending from 1807 to 1868, was the most romantic, the most fascinating, and, in many respects, the most brilliant period in the state's political and social annals. The hardships of pioneer life were beginning to disappear in the glamour of prosperous days. Both the spinnet and the minuet were still in vogue, and even the old-fashioned crane still lingered in the fire-place, but the latter was beginning to yield to the modern stove and to the lucifer match. It was an era of great plantations and of elegant manners;-an era which remembered Lafayette's last visit to this country and which showered upon the aged palladin of Liberty its gayest benedictions;-an era in which the dueling pistols were something more than ancient heir-looms and the field of honor was still a favorite meetingplace for gentlemen of the old school, with grievances to settle and with differences to adjust;-an era in which flowered some of the brighest intellects which the state has ever known, when men like Berrien and Forsyth and Troup and Crawford and Stephens and Toombs and Herschel V. Johnson and Benjamin H. Hill and Joseph E. Brown, the Cobbs and the Lamars and the Lumpkins and the Colquitts still wielded the heavy armor of giants;-an era which witnessed the great tariff debate of 1832 and the stormy secession convention of 1861;-an era in which not only the social but the political life of the state reached its golden noontide of splendor;—and then the crimson holocaust of War and the grim nightmare of Reconstruction! These are memories which invest historic Milledgeville with a peculiar charm, making it unique, in this respect, among all the cities of Georgia. Here |