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Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd 60 poundsof cheese. Bainbridge, the county site, named for another gallant com-modore of the early days of the republic, and a native ofJSTew Jersey, is located on the Flint river and at the junc-tion of two railroads. It is a gTOwing, prosperous town, with anelectric light plant, an ice factory and two banks, whose capital aggre-gate $65,000. The Georgia Pine Railway has its shops here. This is agood point for shipping goods by either steamboat or rail. The popula-tion of Bainbridge by the census of 1900 was 2,641 in the corporatelimits, or, if the whole Bainbridge district is included, 3,669. Climax is another thriving town at the junction of two branches ofthe Plant System. There are in Decatur county a buggy factory, novelty works, a barrelfactory, four large saT^nnills, eight smaller ones, and about 12 still small-er scattered through the county; 21 tuipentine stills, and nearly 100 gristmills, large and small. A company has been formed to build a cotton factory at Bainbridge.
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 627 According to the United States census of 1900 the cotton ginned for1S99 was 4,551 bales of uphuid, and 340 of sca-isknd. The shipments of cotton from this county and vicinity amount to near7,000 bales annually, about 3,000 of which are shipped from Bainbridge.In the southern section of the county tobacco is coming to the front.There are also heavy shipments of sugar-cane synip from Bainbridgeand Climax. This industry is rapidly coming to the foremost place inDecatur and other counties of this part of Georgia. The timbers of this county are pine, cypress and a variety of oaks.Schools and churches abound in town and country. There is an aver-age attendance of 1,9G7 pupils in the 78 white schools, and 1,821 in the57 colored schools. The area of Decatur county is 1,010 square miles or 640,400 acres.Population in 1900, 29,454, a gain of 9,505 since 1890; school fund,$18,280.57. By the Comptroller-Generals report for 1900 there are: Acres ofimproved l

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