Schley-Marion County GaArchives News.....A Description of Schley/Marion Counties-1885 August 17, 1885
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The Atlanta Constitution August 17, 1885
The Marion County Sentinel says the praises of Southwest Georgia, showing it 
to possess advantages which should attract heavy immigration.  It says:

Southwest Georgia is the garden spot of the world and the counties of Schley 
and Marion, the central beds in the beautiful garden.  With a climate which 
excels that of Italy, this section of Georgia offers a home to the man and 
woman residingh in the bleak and ice bound regions of a higher latitude in 
every way desirable.  We know but little of these extremes of heat and colds, 
destructive alike to comfort, health and life.  Marion is a banner cotton 
county of Georgia--this is no guess work--the commissioner of agriculture of 
the state of Georgia at the exposition held at Atlanta announced the fact on a 
prominent placard to the people of the world and none doubted.  Our society 
cannot be excelled in any portion of this state, or elsewhere.  A proper 
attention is given to religion and education, and men and womwn occupy that 
place in the scale of social life to which they are entitled by merit.  No 
ostracism on account of poverty or previous place of abode, a due regard by 
every citizen for the rights of othersis held by all to be a paramount duty, 
and the people of this section look more to a man's destiny than to his 
origin.  A large portion of the territory of the county of Schley formerly 
belonged to the county of Marion, including the present county site, 
Ellaville, the prettiest town in Georgia, modestly nestling in her emerald 
setting of living green.  Her business men are enterprising and successful.  
Phoenix like rising from the ashes of the war.  The past clothes Ellaville 
with many pleasant memories, her future will be just what vim and pluck will 
make her.  Building lots at present can be bought there much cheaper than the 
same lots can be bought one year hence.  The two counties of Marion and Schley 
are watered with creeks, branches and small brooks, never falling streams, 
which, though free gifts from the God of nature, would be held in high esteem 
by sections in the states west of us where the rippling of running waters 
during the summer months are hushed.  Our home soldiers some of them, will 
remember the weary march in the neighborhood of Corinth and Tupelo, 
Mississippi, and the scarcity of water.  There is also a broad guage railroad 
of recent construction, running from Buena Vista in Marion county, through the 
county of Schley, by Ellaville to Anderson(ville), a spot made famous as being 
once the place where one of the Confederate prisons was located. The grounds 
now kept and beautified as a national cemetery.  What could be more delightful 
to a northern invalid on a southern tour seeking rest than to stop in Anderson
(ville), view the national cemetery grounds, board the Buena Vista and 
Ellaville train and after a few minutes and after a twelve mile ride, reach 
Ellaville, made to feel at home by kindness and hospitality, and begin to 
study the character of true southerners, finally giving place to others coming 
in, proceed to Buena Vista, to meet other true southern men and women, breathe 
the pure air, said to be the best on the continent by a scientist of no small 
repute for the consumptive drink good wholesome water (not artesian) and 
return home, built up physically, mentally and spiritually, by an association 
with cultured and hospitable people.



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