DCF Refugee Internment Camp

[TheReal_ND]

Old Katy just got and old school burger joint with the retro fifties vibe. It's right across from an ancient BBQ joint and a Mexican restaurant called, get this, "Los Cucos." They thought we wouldn't ever get it but current year has no bounds.

[Fife]

http://civil-war-picket.blogspot.com/20 ... -fort.html

Now I'm going for sure. Hell of tale, there.

[Okeefenokee]

The judges of the inferior court had the authority to sell lots to individuals on a one-third cash basis with two years to complete the payment. This money was used to build the first courthouse, which was completed in 1828. The second courthouse was completed in 1852, and the present courthouse was erected in 1908. In the southeast corner of the square is a cannonball mounted on a marble base, said to be the first fired at Fort Sumter, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. P. W. Alexander, a noted correspondent during the Civil War (1861–65) and a citizen of Upson County, retrieved it.

A few miles south of the square is one of the oldest houses in Thomaston, the Pettigrew-White-Stamps House. Built by John E. Pettigrew in 1833, it currently serves as the Upson Historical Society Museum. The African American Museum is housed in a late 1920s three-room shotgun-style house.

The Civil War erupted on Thomaston's soil on April 18, 1865, nine days after Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, when Union cavalry raiders moving from Columbus to Macon embarked on three days of devastation in Upson County. The raiders, led by Major General James Harrison Wilson, looted homes, destroyed three of Upson's cotton mills, and set fire to a steam locomotive. In 1866 Thomaston's African Americans held an emancipation celebration, which has continued every year since; celebrated in May, it is the country's longest-running commemoration of freedom from slavery.

During the twentieth century Thomaston's economy was primarily based on the manufacture of textiles and tire cord. Granted a charter in 1899, Thomaston Mills shipped textiles worldwide and served as a major source of economic stability and urban growth, along with B. F. Goodrich's tire cord mill, Martha Mills. East Thomaston (established by Thomaston Mills) and Silvertown (for workers at Martha Mills, later WesTek) were typical of southern mill towns of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomaston,_Georgia

My home in Silvertown,



Joe Dirt's a lyin' fraud.

[Okeefenokee]

http://civil-war-picket.blogspot.com/20 ... -fort.html

Now I'm going for sure. Hell of tale, there.

Let me know. I know stuff,

[Okeefenokee]

Should we mark the day we learned the DCF was closing, or the day it finally closed, as our independence day? We need to consider these things.

[Okeefenokee]

If my 4-H girls get to go back to Perry, GA, next summer, I'm taking the scenic route around the ATL by there.

Perry's one hour away.

[TheReal_ND]

Should we mark the day we learned the DCF was closing, or the day it finally closed, as our independence day? We need to consider these things.

The day should be in the last post of one or the other of our archived threads or the Monday right after. I had to bump the archived threads from the search engine so I could find them easily while they were still live without them being highlited with red search terms.

[Okeefenokee]

Just get us a date, we'll make the call from there.

[TheReal_ND]

Tuesday, November 29th 2016. The Opening.
Monday, December 5th 2016. The Shuttening.

[Okeefenokee]

Tuesday, November 29th 2016. The Opening.
Monday, December 5th 2016. The Shuttening.

1776 was the opening.

I vote for 29 November.