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Title: A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
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Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the Coosa valley and therich cotton fields along those alluvialbottoms, as well as the fine timber-lands of the mountain region below. But oh, how lonely is that out-of-the-way region, peopled only by thelumbermen and hill billies, as therural population is characterized bythe steamboat men. I gazed on thelock-keepers house, provided by thegovernment, perched high on a swell-ing hill above the river, and wonder-ed how he managed to while away hisleisure hours. You see, it is his duty to open thelocks twice a day and see that theyare in working order, whether any boatpasses or not, and otherwise he hasnothing to do. But there are plentyof buffalo perch in the river, and dur-ing the winter large flocks of wildgeese and ducks, so that aside fromthe solitude of his surroundings, hissituation is not an unpleasant one. Dinner was announced soon after weturned our faces homeward, and wesat down with a relish to a bountifulmeal, which we enjoyed as only such Anecdotes and Reminiscences 309
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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE—AND BOATS. Note at the top the sea-going appearance of the good ship Sequoyah, built by Troop 2 ofthe Boy Scouts in Beaverslide . Is it any wonder that Rome lads can swim, dive and sail?.sewhere are seen various boats and bathers, the Eagle Troop of Girl Scouts at the CarnegieLibrary, and boys engaged in games on Hamilton Field. Most of the pictures were taken Sept.5, 1921. 310 A History of Rome and Floyd County voyagers are able after a breezy rideinthe face of a stiff gale. Then began the toilsome journey upthe river, w^hich is full of shoals andunusually low for the season, whichnecessitates the most careful naviga-tion to prevent the vessel sticking onthe rocks or running her nose into amud bank. Six miles an hour was theaverage speed, and I had an opportu-nity of viewing many points noted inthe history of the country. There was Canoe Creek, coming infrom the westward, which glidesthrough the wildest portion of thatmountain region, whose inhabitantsare cu

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