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Historic Image Preservation and Presentation

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Collect every issue! Win a $50 Sam & Rosco’s Gift Card, pg. 24

Memories of Frog Rock & Black History of History as I

the Springs, pg. 4 Douglas County, pg. 10 Remember It, pg. 20
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Historic Image Preservation and Presentation
brought to you by the founders of chapel hill news & views
By Tim Collins - Publisher
thank you for picking up the very first issue of hiPP
Magazine. hiPP stands for historic image Preservation and
Presentation. each year, four issues will be distributed all over
douglas county.
hiPP Magazine is full of historical photographs but what
makes it unique and extremely interesting are the personal sto-
ries of what life was like in douglas county in years gone by.
this gives the magazine “life” as people who have lived here
for many years recount their personal memories. hopefully
reading these stories and viewing the photographs will paint
a mental picture in your mind about what it was like here in
days gone by.
because this is a publication with so many unique photos
and stories, you may want to keep every issue of the publica-
tion, starting with this first one. by collecting every issue, you
can build your own personal copy of the history of douglas
county!
this publication came about as a result of my correspon-
dence with richard nichols, the President of the sweetwater
camera club. one evening i was emailing him about our other
publication, chapel hill news & views. somehow the topic
of historical photographs and local history was brought up,
and i happened to mention that i have always thought that a
publication full of old photographs would be interesting to do.
he added that it would be neat to capture the memories of
older residents. at the next meeting of the sweetwater camera
club, he mentioned the idea, and by the end of the meeting
about 15 members of the club had volunteered to help with the
project by interviewing older residents, scanning in pictures,
restoring old photos and sharing their memories. richard has
created the website www.hippsite.com where members of the
community can upload photos and stories, and can comment
on their memories or personal experiences regarding the pho-
tos they see. some of these comments will be included in
future issues of hiPP Magazine as well.
there are so many people i would like to thank for their
help in launching this publication. First, i would like to thank
god for blessing this undertaking and sending so many people
my way that have volunteered to help. Without his help, and
the assistance of so many citizens of douglas county, this
publication would not be possible, at least in its current form. i
am also so thankful for the wonderful staff that worked tire-
lessly on this magazine to put out a publication that is “first
class” in every way! i have been blessed with a group of people
who are honest, dependable, and take extreme pride in their
work and my personal success is directly related to the efforts
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Preservation and Presentation (hiPP) committee, which con-
sists of at least 20 photographers from the sweetwater camera
club here in douglasville. the hiPP group is also made up
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of local historians and history buffs who are providing materi-
als and opening dialogs with some of douglas county’s most
honorable citizens.
thank you to angelo omar Muhammad for collecting
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historical moments and reminisces from the black perspec-
tive. thanks to larry hunter and Kent owings for their many Publisher &
trips to visit some of our stars. larry is responsible for the
information supplied by clara belcher, Jeff champion and
editorial director
gleda James. Kent has worked on making pictures of many tim collins
commercial buildings and homes in douglas county and has
conducted extensive interviews with downtown historians and art director
writers. thanks to 80 year old John Fuller for his strong inter-
est in finding carnes cabin. norma nichols is responsible for lindsey robbins
web programming and assisting in the preparation and backup
of information systems. Frank Karycinski worked on restoring advertising design
the picture of bill arp college. natasha stansel contributed
her mother’s reminisces. butch alley of alley Printing has been
cynthia Keith
very helpful in supplying pictures of early lithia springs in-
cluding lithia Water bottles and the cover photo of downtown advertising sales
douglasville. his nephew, billy holmes submitted photo il-
lustrations of carnes cabin as well. Jerry leath, former owner
Joe Keith
of the great Frame-up has been kind enough to host our Jason robbins
hiPP group meetings thus far. Mary lesh sent along her own
versions of carnes cabin. Myra and Ken Wade interviewed
Joanne Fowler and secured the christine greene story along
with their precious family photos. dot Padgett supplied us
with many pictures as well as her script concerning the history
of downtown douglasville. earl albertson conducted several (678) 840-8604
interviews with us for future publication. gleda James of lithia
springs, and actual owner of the springs, has been very helpful www.hippmagazineusa.com
in putting together the lithia springs story. For hiPPsite.com
we appreciate the contribution of the doc Win band from P.o. box 7162
villa rica for letting us use their southern rock song “doug-
lasville,” taken from their album “one More time.” You can douglasville, ga 30154
listen to this song anytime by going to www.hippsite.com. Fax: (678) 805-4956
our photos of the 15 oldest or most historic buildings in
douglas county were made at the request of susanne hudson
who put together a display for the old courthouse on the
“Wall of Fame.” suzanne is the chairperson of the doug- this magazine is dedicated
las county tourism & history commission and the director
of the Penny Mchenry hydrangea Festival. We would also
to the glory of god.
like to thank laura lieberman, the executive director of the May everything we do as a
douglasville/douglas county cultural arts council. she has company and individually
provided moral support and cheerleading in getting our group
launched. We are dedicating the hiPPsite.com to the cac bring honor to his name.
and to its satellite arts groups including the douglas county
historical society.
and to any of you in douglasville and douglas county
the opinions expressed by con-
who have stories to tell and pictures to share, don’t hesitate to
tributing writers are not necessarily
get in touch with us. We will be publishing information of his-
torical interest in both this hiPP Magazine and at the compan-
that of the editor, the publisher or
ion websites of hiPPMagazineusa.com and hiPPsite.com. of hiPP Magazine. the publisher
the cultural arts center is providing a permanent meet-
ing place for the hiPP group. We will meet the first thursday
reserves the right to reject any ad-
vertising or free submissions at his
of every month at 7 p.m. in the Wynn building adjacent to the
cac on campbellton street here in douglasville. For further
information call richard nichols at 404-210-5985.
i would also like to thank the businesses which advertised
discretion. the publisher also re-
serves the right to edit submissions
for space, grammar or to conform
with the content of the magazine.
in this magazine. their advertising has made it possible to pro-
no part of this magazine may be re-
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at $99 per issue, and it is a publication that has an extremely the publisher.
long shelf life, is interesting to read, and has 20,000 copies
distributed each issue.
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Submitted by Clara Belcher
I was born in Lithia Springs, Georgia on what is now known as
Groovers Lake Road, 94 years ago June 26th, 1915. There have been
many changes in Lithia Springs, but not Frog Rock. It is still standing
after being threatened to be demolished.
As a kid, that was a favorite place to go and play. I tried to climb
to the top but could never make it. It was a hangout for all the kids
in the community. There was a swimming pool and later a skating
rink across Bankhead Highway from the Rock, so it was a good place
for us kids to go. I have an original picture of the rock that I treasure
very much. It was made by Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Causey that lived on the
property and took care of the place for several years.
Many years ago very prominent people came from faraway places
to get the water to drink, as it was told to be good to cure diseases of
many kinds. They would stay at famous hotels, one in Lithia Springs
and one in Austell, GA. Also they had a small train that they could
ride to and from the hotels.
The water of Lithia Springs was shipped all over the nation. My
father-in-law helped load the water to be shipped out. Lithia Springs
was a famous place for quite a long time. After the hotel burned in
Lithia Springs, it became many things.
The Brannon brothers had a dance hall and meeting places for
awhile. Mr. Spiller, the manager of the “Atlanta Cracker Baseball
Team” moved to Lithia Springs in 1950 and built a motel on the prop-
erty and that lasted for several years. His son-in-law, Johnny Suggs, a
member of the Crackers, moved here to take over the motel, but even-
tually it was demolished. He then built a golf course in a circle that
crossed Bankhead Highway. That was a big thing for Lithia Springs!
He, his wife and two children, Raele and Louise ran the golf course
for a long time. My father-in-law and sons worked on the course and
greens keeping the grass mowed. It was a very popular place.
Louise, Johnny Suggs’ daughter became a very famous woman
golfer. She is the only female inductee into the “Golf Hall of Fame.”
Austell claims her, but she lived in Lithia Springs. We have heard
that there will be a memorial placed on Lithia Springs Property to
honor her.
After I married, we lived in places near the springs, first on Dum-
my Train Line in 1930 and now on Causey Road (from 1955) that
adjoins the golf course. We had a dog that would hear the golf balls
hit the Green, then run over and steal the balls before the player could
get up the hill to the Green.
During this time you could still buy the water for 5 cents a gallon.
Later the golf course went out of business, Lithia Springs changed
and old Dr. Garrett’s medical office was moved from its original site
to Lithia Springs and saved as a museum where they started shipping
the water out again.
A shopping center has been built with several businesses and an
Arby’s fast food restaurant in the place where the old golf course was.
But my favorite place, “Frog Rock” still stands though it is hard to see
since Bankhead Highway has been built up to stop the flood waters
from coming across the highway.

Photo by Larry Hunter, Sweetwater Camera Club. Portrait of Clara Belcher and her daughter Betty Lee Bird. Not pictured is Clara’s daughter Frances Weaver.

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 The Roar of the Lions
Imagine within your neighborhood hearing the roar of Lions, the
laugh of Hyenas, the call of the peacock, and the trumpet sounds of an
elephant. If you lived anywhere near King Drive in Douglasville, you
experienced it in living color, all brought to you by one man, Harold
“Red” Palmer.
Everyone has seen a TV show where a wild animal was shot with a
tranquilizer gun. Or perhaps you have seen a movie where one of the
characters was put to sleep with a dart gun. Believe it or not, those dart
guns were all made right here in Douglasville.
The Cap-Chur Tranquilizer Gun: Simple, Accurate, and Reliable:
Mr. Red Palmer made it happen. People working for the state of Georgia
conceived the difficult project of creating a gun that could deliver an
anesthetic to animals without hurting them - but they were unable to
perfect the invention. Once Red Palmer was awarded the contract for
the project, he never looked back. He built his manufacturing, training
and research compound near the Intersection of King Dr, and what is
now Riverside Parkway in east Douglas County.
During the early 1960’s there were many of dirt roads in the county.
This exotic animal facility and testing ground was quite remote. Little
did Mr. Palmer know that he and his personal zoo would soon be sur-
rounded by a neighborhood.
I grew up about a half mile down King Drive from this awesome
place. I never knew a day without the sound of wild animals in my own
back yard. My father, Jerry Champion (originator of Champ’s Clock
Shop), worked for Mr. Palmer for several years. He would sometimes
take me to work with him and what an experience I would get! There
is nothing like the experience of rolling around the floor with a pair of
lion cubs. One day while my father was painting, I watched them drag
my father’s ladder around by the drop cloth the ladder was sitting on.
It was not uncommon for me to be sitting by Palmers Lake trying to
catch a fish and receive a visit from Sissy the Deer. She was so tame she
would walk right up to you and let you pet her.
Mr. Palmer’s Village was much more than a private zoo and research
facility; it was an opportunity for folks like me and many others to
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experience the wild. All of the animals had names: there was Lulu, the
cigar-smoking Orangutan, Bill, the king of King Drive-- a huge male
lion; but my personal favorite was Donna, the elephant.
While attending Lithia Springs High School in the winter of 1980,
I turned 16 years old. Mr. Palmer was in need of an animal feeder at the
time so he offered the job to me. It was a lot of responsibility but I was
more than ready for the task. It wasn’t just a job, but a generous GIFT.
By the time I started working there, Red’s menagerie of tigers, a buffalo
herd, llamas, monkeys, and snakes were all part of the past but I still had
plenty of wild animals to enjoy.
My feed list consisted of two lions (Bill and Cachita), 1 adolescent
lion (Goldie), six hyenas, six cougars (2 were tame and younger), a dozen
or so elk, and one great big elephant (Donna). Donna ate 125 pounds of
grains and a half bale of soy hay per day. She drank about 20 gallons of
water each day as well. This meant that I had more than 125 pounds of
waste material to shovel up every day, but being around such a brilliant
animal was worth it. Not many folks have had the experience of hugging
the front leg of an elephant while she lifts you from the ground, her one
big eye cautiously looking at you as you experience the gentle motion of
her trunk patting around on you. Her natural sounds consisted of deep
gurgling rumbles, little high pitched squeals -- and once in a while an
eyebrow rattling trumpet when she felt very happy.
One day Donna was chained near the lake where she played and
bathed. She unhooked herself and ventured out on her own. A neighbor,
Mrs. Thompson, found Donna in her garden. It’s not often that you have
to make a call and ask your neighbor to come get their elephant out of
your garden.
Donna also liked to play once she was loose. She stomped cans of
paint, left silver foot prints up the drive, crushed the side of the feed van
while scratching, balanced a snapper riding lawnmower on a pole, and
then helped herself to the feed barn. She did have her fun and we had
some major clean up to do.
All these were wonderful experiences! I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr.
Red Palmer for changing my life for the better, forever.
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 Business History
One of the best
known roofing companies in
Douglas County, and indeed the Atlanta area is Ben Hill
Roofing.
The firm was founded in 1964 by Carroll Welch. Carroll started
an apprenticeship in roofing and sheet metal in the summers of the
1940s in New England. After being transferred to Fort McPherson
during the Korean War conflict he met his wife Ezma, who was
from Georgia.
After the war, he continued roofing while working as a City
of Atlanta Fireman. In 1964 he resigned the City of Atlanta, and
started Ben Hill Roofing and Siding Co., Inc. in the Ben Hill busi-
ness district near Greenbriar Mall. able. The company has over
After a fire struck their location in Ben Hill, the company moved 64,000 customers throughout
to Douglasville in 1978 to offices on Bowden Street at Spring their 45 years in business.
Street. After outgrowing their downtown Douglasville location, The Welch fam-
in 1989 they moved to their present site at 6811 West Bankhead ily and the staff
Highway, where they have been for the past 20 years. at Ben Hill Roof-
The company is still owned by the Welch family, with Car- ing and Siding
roll’s son David at the helm since 1984 when Carroll passed away. would like to thank
David’s wife Sandra is the Secretary and Treasurer. Other family Douglas County
for their support
members are also actively involved in the business including Human
over the years. For
Resource Manager Patty Webb, and David and Sandra’s daughters
more information,
Brooke and Paige. Brooke’s husband Dewayne is the Commercial
you may call them
Superintendent.
at 770-949-3514 or
One of the changes David made after he took over the operations visit their website at
of Ben Hill Roofing & Siding was to add a commercial division, www.bhroof.com.
and a service maintenance division. The company is now one of the Right: Article in
largest commercial roofing companies in the state. The Weekly Star an-
In addition to roofing, Ben Hill Roofing also offers siding re- nouncing the business
placement, window replacement, gutters and gutter guards, and opening in 1964
attic insulation. They offer free estimates, and references are avail-

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 Black History
of douglas county
By Angelo Omar Muhammad a1partyvideo@aol.com

In the early 1800’s Sally Dones came to Campbell County with her slave master who purchased her in North Carolina. Sally bore her
first few children from that slave master who also named her but she later bore children from another man. Sadly, this is the only family
history that the Dones family has.
One of the offspring, Carlene Dones, who is now a secretary for Golden Memorial Methodist Church on Forrest Avenue in Douglasville,
invited me to her office recently and used her keen memory to reflect back to her childhood days growing up in the racially diverse area
that was at that time called “Sweetwater”. Born in 1945, she recalls playing with both white and black children without incident. In her
eyes as a child everything was equal and she shared many pleasant memories with both races, even though when it was time for school her
white friends attended a different school. Even with that, as a young child, she did not see the larger picture of society. She says she
could remember that if the white children were bad at her house, her parents would chastise them and if she was bad at their house she
would also get chastised at their home. As a child she didn’t even make much of the segregated cemetery where the black people were
buried in the back.
Hutchinson School was the first school she attended, which has since been converted to Simpson’s Funeral Home. Once she got into
seventh grade she went to RL Cousins, which was an all black school that covered grades first through twelfth. RL Cousins has since been
changed to Stewart Middle School. She recalls enjoying school very much and said that the teachers were “good” teachers who cared
about the children.
Visits into town were few and far between, but she remembers some visits she made to the supermarket and to a local clothing and shoe
store. Most of the blacks at that time lived on the north side of the railroad tracks with the exception of a few other areas including what
they referred to as “black bottom”.
Ms. Dones stated that with the advent of integration things changed but it seemed to change for the worse, mostly because of the new
rules and regulations that were implemented, like going to the clothing and shoe store and not being able to sit where the white people sat
to try on the shoes. Blacks would have to go back further to sit. If they went to a restaurant, they would have to go around the back to
order their food. If they went to buy an ice cream cone, they could not sit and enjoy it. If they went to the Alpha Theater they would
have to climb some very dark steps and sit way up in the balcony to see the same picture that the white people were watching from the
first level of the theater.
She does not remember many black businesses back then except the
beauty shop, pool room and a café. Entertainment for young adults con-
sisted mostly of going to school dances.
Ms. Dones smiled as she reflected on the fact that her mother never
worked but her father, Joe Henry Dones - who was the first black bailiff in
Douglasville, always managed to put food on the table. Her father also ran
for public office and was a successful businessman.

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associated with the church that were not so pleasant.
Even with some of the struggles she faced growing up, Carlene Dones con-
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remember that Black History IS American History.
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 Douglas
DouglasCounty
CountyHistorical
HistoricalResources
Resources

Books
1. From Indian Trail to I-20 copyright 1987 by Fannie Mae Davis. This is the definitive history of Douglas County.
2. Portraits of History 1814-1950 by Earl M. Albertson copyright 1998
3. The Heritage of Douglas County Georgia 1870-2002 copyright 2003 by the Douglas County Genealogical Society.
4. To God Be the Glory – Central Baptist Church, Douglasville Georgia 1907-2002 copyright 2007 by the History Committee
of Central Baptist Church

Organizations and other resources:

1. Douglas County Courthouse, first floor wings, large murals showing early Douglas County people, places and events. 8700 Hospital
Drive, 770-949-2000.
2. Douglas County Genealogical Society. Collects family histories and helps contribute to and maintain the special Collections at the
Douglas County Public Library. www.douglascountygensoc.org.
3. Douglas County Museum of History and Art. Located in the Old Courthouse, Douglasville GA. Includes artifacts, displays, the
Douglas County Hall of Fame and the Douglas County Wall of Fame. 6754 West Broad Street, 770-949-4090.
4. Historical Society of Douglas County. A satellite organization under the Douglasville/Douglas County Cultural Arts Center dedi-
cated to preserving the history of this area.
5. Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park, Villa Rica. A 4800 square foot museum located at the site of an actual gold mine.
1881 Stockmar Road, Villa Rica, 770-459-8455.
6. Special Collections Room at the Douglas County Public Library. This room contains a great number of historical books and docu-
ments concerning the history of this area, 6810 Selman Drive, 770-920-7125.
7. Sweetwater Creek State Park – New Manchester Ruins and History Hike. Located in Lithia Springs, an impressive scale model of
the New Manchester Textile Mill is found inside the park’s Interpretive Center/ Museum. A mile-long hike each Saturday during the
spring and summer focuses on the history of the Sweetwater Creek valley. 1750 Mount Vernon Rd, Lithia Springs.

Websites
1. Celebrate Douglas County history page: www.celebratedouglascounty.com/about - a brief history of Douglas County
2. Collection: Losing Georgia Project by Andrew A. Powell: www.flickr.com/photos/losinggeorgia/collections/72157606598859379/ -

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4. HippMagazineUSA.com – The official website of Hipp Magazine: www.hippmagazineusa.com
5. HIPPsite.com – Historical Image Preservation and Presentation Group site – www.hippsite.com - a collection of historical pic-
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tures, stories, articles, scans, video and audio interviews and multimedia presentations about the history of Douglasville and Douglas
County Georgia, its people, places, things and events
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6. Friends of Sweetwater Creek State Park: www.friendsofsweetwatercreek.org/park.html - Contains information concerning activities,
events, trails, and history of the area.
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 Douglas
DouglasCounty
CountyMemorabilia
Memorabilia
From the private collection of Butch and Debbie Alley of Lithia Springs. They are looking to purchase old stoneware jugs, churns, milk pitch-
ers, etc. and local history items. Call Butch at 770-356-1803 if you have any of the above items for sale.

Group of three different sizes of Bowden Lithia Springs Water Company bottles,
all embossed and all circa 1890-1905. On the 1/2 gallon size bottles there were a number
of different mold variations. Most were aqua but a few earlier bottles were clear glass.
The variations come about as they used several different glass houses to make the
bottles and each glass house had their own mold therefore there were slight variations.
The photo with only two bottles are two of the earliest bottles ever
made for Bowden Lithia Springs Water Company. They are embossed from
Salts Springs, Georgia which was the name of the town when Judge Bowden
opened the Springs in the mid 1880’s. The town name was changed to Lithia
Springs in 1886.

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The photo of the water cooler is from Bowden Lithia Springs Water Company, Lithia
Springs and has a white porcelain insert in which to hold the water. A five gallon bottle was
placed into the center and water was dispensed much as the coolers are today except the area
around the insert was filled with ice to cool the water. It has two knobs - one to dispense cool
Lithia water and the other one to drain the water from the melted ice.

The letter opener with small pen knife is adver-

tising Bowden Lithia Springs Water and was given to
customers as company advertising, circa 1900.

The aluminum token reads “J.L. SELMAN & SON

/ DRUGGIST / DOUGLASVILLE, GA.”. On the reverse
side it reads “GOOD FOR / 5 / DRINK”. This was used
at the soda fountain at the drug store formerly located at the
old B & W Drug store which is now Irish Bred Pub located
on Broad Street next to O’Neal Plaza.

The brass token says “MILL STORE / DOUG-

LASVILLE/GA.” on the front and on the reverse side it
says “GOOD FOR / .5 / IN TRADE”. It is about 7/8”
round and is from the Louis Mill company store for
employees, which still is located on Bankhead High-
way, just east of town.

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 Historical
HistoricalProperties
PropertiesDesignation
Designation
n late July, 2009, the Sweetwater Camera Club HIPP Committee
was called upon by Suzanne Hudson, chairman of the Douglas
County Tourism & History Commission, to photograph exist-
ing historical buildings around Douglas County that have been given
the Historical Property Designation. These photographs were matted
and framed to hang on the “Wall of Fame” in the Old Courthouse in
downtown Douglasville. The year listed in the caption is the year the
building was designated.
2002 Bullard Henley Sprayberry
Home - 5135 Highway 92
Photograph by Frank Karycinski, Sweetwater Camera Club

2001 Smith Hall - 6340 Smith Ferry 2002 Manchester Mill - Sweetwater
Road, Douglasville (circa 1855) Creek State Park, Lithia Springs
Photograph by Frank Karycinski, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club

2001 Chapel Hill Courthouse - 2003 Poole House - 7512 West Strick-
Chapel Hill Road, Douglasville land Street, Douglasville
Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club

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2002 Carnes Cabin - Clinton Nature 2004 Ronald Black Home - 3754
Preserve, Winston (1828) Temple Street. Lithia Springs (1912)
Photograph by Mary Lesh, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Richard Nichols, Sweetwater Camera Club
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- Douglas County Tourism & History Commission

2004 Greenwood House - 8568 Price 2006 Hutcheson-Hudson House - 8612

Avenue, Douglasville (1915) Campbellton Street, Douglasville
Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club

2005 Fordham House - 4177 Ben Hill 2007 The Farm - 3976 Mason Creek
Road, Lithia Springs Road, Douglasville
Photograph by Norma Nichols, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Frank Karycinski, Sweetwater Camera Club

2005 Stewart House - 4186 Chapel 2008 Simpson & Daughters Mortuary
Hill Road, Douglasville - 6787 Forest Drive, Douglasville
Photograph by Richard Nichols, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Kent Owings, Sweetwater Camera Club

2006 Middle Courthouse - Post 2009 Chigger Ridge Farm House - 3861
Road, Douglasville Highway 166, Douglasville
Photograph by Norma Nichols, Sweetwater Camera Club Photograph by Frank Karycinski, Sweetwater Camera Club

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 History as I Remenber I t
By Christine Abercrombie Greene
My birth date was October
20th, 1906--- about 103 years
ago. The memories I am sharing
range in time from about 1910/1911
through the early 1920s.
My birth place is in Douglas
County in a house that was on
Jesse Abercrombie’s farm (pic-
tured right). Jesse was
my grandfather. His
farm adjoined his
father-in-law’s farm
in the Chestnut Log district. The
farm was on two sides of Pope Road, with the road divid-
ing it into halves. There was a main house and three other
houses for share croppers. A community school house was
across the road from the main house. I was born in one
of the small houses now long gone. The main house still
remains today.
The 1910 census shows my family having moved to the
Price house on Campbellton Street
(called Chapel Hill on the census
back then) (pictured left). I’m listed
as 4 years old. This house was built
by my grandparents, Mary Clem-
entine Hartsfield and David Wade
Price in 1892. We still have the re-
ceipt for the purchase of lumber
at that time.
My main growing up memo-
ries were on Prestley Mill Road,
called Slater Mill on the 1920
C O U NTY census. Daddy had bought 51 acres
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acres adjoining that property. My father, James William (Will) Aber-
crombie, then built his family home. It stood where the First United
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of my father, a Baptist who planted the line of water oaks along the
front of the church 100 years ago. My mother grew up a Methodist so
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The hospital sits where my father once tilled the ground. I remem-
ber that soon after Archie and I married we came out to help pick
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peas, the crop that we planted in that “hospital field” that year.
My mother Ola and her mother kept in touch by sending the chil-
dren back and forth with messages. When the telephone came to
the county we subscribed and “Mama Price” subscribed. The Edward
sisters managed the switchboard back then, which was upstairs in Sel-
man’s drug store. The lines were all party lines and each phone had
a certain ring. When the phone company modernized and expanded
its service somehow the line between my mother and her mother re-
mained open. They talked many years on
their “private party line.”
I was 10 years old when I first rode in a
car. My sister, Louise, was born in 1916. Her
birth was made memorable for me because Dr.
Selman brought us children (who had been
staying with my father’s brother on Pope Road)
back home in his car. The car ride was actually
more exciting than a new baby sister, especially
from the viewpoint of my brothers.
There were not many cars in Douglas County
but there was a railroad, the Southern Railway. I
think it went through Birmingham. An accom-
modation train ran daily into Atlanta. My grandmother, Elizabeth
Abercrombie made one or two shopping trips to Atlanta each year. I
mainly remember the bananas she brought back. My aunt, Marie Price
later road the train back and forth to work at the State Health De-
partment in downtown Atlanta.
Our personal mode of transportation was walking more than any-
thing else. We were driven to school in a buggy on rainy days; other-
wise, we walked. The school was located where the Armory is now. It
burned and classes were distributed to any nearby businesses that had
a vacant room. My class was in the White building which now holds
attorney offices at the corner of Bankhead and Courthouse Square.
We studied by lamplight. Floyd and Elizabeth, my older brother
and sister, were quick with their books. They would be up and gone
from the kitchen table and I would still be sitting, poring over my
homework. I always thought of myself as a poor student (and at least
one report card attests to this fact). Why is the only report card still
in my possession a terrible one?
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tured above right, pg. 21) (my grandfather and grandmother Aber-
crombie) at the corner of Campbellton and Spring Streets. When
Jesse Abercrombie sold his property on Campbellton Street, across the
street from the Price house, he built where the BB&T bank building
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one story with a porch across the
front and back. It stood adjacent
to a grove of trees. There was a
large garden area and a barn for
horses and cows. A wooden fence
enclosed the barnyard and a picket
fence surrounded the house and
yard, separating this area from
the rest of the property. The
property extended half a block
from Campbellton Street to Adair
Street.
The L-shaped house had a parlor to the right of the hall, a bed-
room to the left of the hall and another bedroom beyond each of
these rooms. A dining room and kitchen
were on the left, both of which
opened to the back porch. My most
vivid memories about the parlor are
of the piano and the stereo-scope. In
the dining room, I can picture “Fa-
ther” (my grandfather) sitting at the
dining room table with a long row of
mustache cups behind him. He would
lean back and pick up one of the cups for
his coffee.
I also remember on Christmas holidays
“Father” loved to sit on the back porch, light
and throw firecrackers out into the yard. He was also into blackening
the Christmas oranges with soot as if Santa had dragged them down
his chimney. One night, my Uncle Joseph really outdid his daddy’s
firecrackers. Sneaking a smoke in the barn loft, he set the hay on fire
and burned the barn to the ground.
From the backyard you could look out and see the livery stable. As
I remember, it was across and facing Church Street. One of Marion
Abercrombie’s sons owned it, I think. I don’t know who stabled horses
there nor do I remember any transports for hire from there.
Across from the livery stable was a doctor’s office. Uncle Tom,
Daddy’s older brother, trained there. He later became the director of
the state’s health services.
Many remembrances for me center around the Campbellton-Spring
Street house. My routine after school most days was not to go straight
home, but to go by the old courthouse, walk the wall around it which
would put me out on Front Street at the White building. Down Front
Street below Selman’s Drugstore was the “loafer’s bench”. I could
nearly always find my grandfather Abercrombie here. He was one of
the loafers. He would give me a penny for a piece of penny candy from
the candy barrel. Then I would continue on to my grandparents’ house
and visit my grandmother Abercrombie. There was always something
to eat, a hot baked sweet potato, fresh bread—something. “Father”
kept me in hair ribbons and “dime” dresses when he noticed them on
sale. If I dirtied my dress while at his house, he would send me to
Duncan’s store rather than send me home. I always felt favored, but,
of course, I am a “namesake.” My first name is Jessie with an “ie”; my
grandfather’s name was Jesse without the “i”.
Sara Peace, my best friend at the time, lived close by. We played
together, mostly on the long front porch of my grandmother’s house.
We both had little china dolls which we dressed and made up play
scenarios for. Sara’s father worked as manager of the train station
about a block from the house. When Sara couldn’t make her doll “do”
like she wanted, the china doll would fly off onto a pile of rocks at the
end of the porch and off Sara and Christine would go to the station
to get Sara a new china doll.
Our house on Prestley Mill was inside the city limits but it was a
house on a working farm. The cotton baler was along where the jail
and the barbecue place are now. The corn went to Daniel’s Mill just
across the railroad on the right hand side of Dallas Highway; Daniel’s
house was on Bankhead close to Fairburn Road. Someone would bring
in a thrashing machine and thrash one time per year-- maybe stay a
couple of days to thrash all the fields.
Daddy didn’t allow his girls in the fields, but he had no objection
to us being in the kitchen. I marvel now at what my mother was able
to do. More than once she would get up in the morning, catch and
wring a chicken’s neck and pluck and serve it for breakfast. Thank
goodness she never felt she had to pass this accomplishment along
to her daughters. But Elizabeth and I did have to cook and wash
dishes. (I always dried and would put the ones Elizabeth didn’t
wash well back in the wash water. She would be so mad!)
We also had to look after the younger children. Our short-
comings were many in this area. One time we were in charge
and Jack hitched a little wagon to a calf and then put my little
sister Nannie in the wagon. The calf started running. Nannie started
bouncing and screaming! Thankfully, the wagon shortly turned over,
dumping Nannie out, unhurt. I don’t remember Mother and Daddy
ever finding out. Some things you
just don’t tell!
Just as Mother didn’t shrink
from plucking chickens for break-
fast, neither did she flinch from
making hominy. I include her
recipe for Lye Hominy from the
cookbook Favorite Southern Reci-
pes by Southern Ruralist Readers,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Lye Hominy
Put a third as much corn as
you want hominy (as it swells to
two-thirds its quantity when done) in a pot. Put hard wood ashes into
a little sack made of cloth; put in the corn and boil until the skins will
slip. Remove from the fire and wash until the water is clear. Return to
the fire and boil until tender. Beat fine with a hominy beater. Season
with salt and butter or fat fried from bacon. Mrs. J.W. Abercrombie,
Douglasville, Ga
She also submitted a recipe for Burnt Caramel Cake. This recipe I
can relate to, but Mother was proud of both.
My Grandfather Price loved turtles but Mama Price wouldn’t cook
them for him. However, my mother would. Papa Price would gig the
turtles down at the creek where Prestley Mill dead-ends at Slater
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 Road and would walk back home with his sack full of turtles. Mother
would clean and cook them. Each part of the turtle has a different
taste, so they say.
Daddy killed his own hogs. He would have “chittlin” suppers for the
men. Mother would cook but some of the men liked the ears. Daddy
had to cook those. Beef was bought from someone coming by to sell
meats. You could pick out the roasts or steaks, etc. that you wanted.
When syrup cane came in, a syrup mill was set up in the backyard.
Everyone would bring their cane to the grinder. Daddy had the mule
that would walk in a circle turning the grinder. Vats had a fire going
under them. You could pull up a little door and
the syrup would run from the first vat to the
second. About 5 vats were set up with the syrup
getting thicker as it passed to each vat. The men
would bring their cups and drink the juice and test
the syrup. There was a lot of talking and laughing
and visiting on syrup cane days.
An ice house I don’t remember. Cool water
springs and below-ground cellars were used to keep
some things cool.
I do remember Gypsies but not Indians. The Gyp-
sies camped in the field across from Tom Abercrombie’s
place (the old Haddle house with the well in front).
They would stay a couple of days. Mother once bought
lace from a gypsy woman who came to the door.
Entertainment mostly took place at church or
at someone’s home. Usually a person in the crowd
would play an instrument, so we sang. I remember
one time there was dancing and Daddy got a visit
from the church deacons. It seems they didn’t like
us dancing. We had taffy pulls and pound cake
suppers, Christmas caroling, box suppers with the
ladies’ boxes auctioned off to the gentlemen who
also got to have supper with the lady as part of
the deal.
It wasn’t hard to scratch up kinship with
anyone else and family reunions were big events.
There was a James/Moody/Rudd reunion we attended and a Camp/
Baggett and a Camp/Selman/Abercrombie family reunion. One of the
reunions on the Fourth of July was celebrated with a big picnic. Mother
made Brunswick stew. She cooked it nearly all day the day before the
picnic in a big iron pot outside. Another reunion was held at
Lithia Springs and yet another one at Powder Springs.
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one day. Dr. Selman took her there, then to Crawford Long in
Atlanta. I think they inserted some radium to stop the bleeding.
Other doctors of memory in the Douglasville area were Dr. Poole
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and Dr. Boyd.
Patients were primarily treated in their home and doctors made
house calls. Home remedies were big—castor oil and mustard plas-
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smallpox outbreak. Mother isolated me in one room. Uncle Tom
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Abercrombie came out and vaccinated the rest of the family, I think
Aunt Pearl Price, a school teacher, contracted it. Also I remember Caw-
thorn Rudd, a neighbor boy who also had smallpox. My case was re-
stricted to only three or four spots.
In 1918, My oldest brother Floyd was in his first year at the Uni-
versity of Georgia. He came home with the flu. Schools and churches
were closed. My grandfather Abercrombie died in October 1918, but
not of the flu. The casket was placed on the porch of his house and
the service held in the yard. When my grandfather Price died in 1921,
his wake was held at his house. Aunt Pearl insisted all the children stay
up for the wake. His casket sat under the window in what is
now my dining room. I don’t remember the name of anyone
who died during the flu epidemic.
Lois Mill was how Grandfather Abercrombie lost his
money. He was heavily invested in the cotton mill. The
boll weevil devastated many Southerners who linked
their fortune to cotton. I was baptized in the pond at
the side of the mill on Bankhead Highway.
I do remember when the bank broke. People got up
that morning and found the bank doors closed. People
were out in the street—they wanted to get in to get
their money. The bank failure was linked to cotton
too.
My graduating class was the “class of ‘24”. Mother and Daddy
thought they would make a teacher out of me, but there
was no doubt in my mind what I was going to be. I had
known since Daddy had typhoid fever and a nurse came
in to help care for him. This was my first exposure to
nursing and I liked it. I did concede to take the teacher’s
exam. It wasn’t hard to fail it!
At 17, one week after graduating high school, I was
standing at the train station with my trunk packed with
uniforms Mother made for me. I was on my way to Georgia
Baptist Nursing School. I overheard my father telling my
mother, “She’ll be back in six weeks”. Well, three years later
I graduated an RN. I was capped, pinned, wore the white
uniform and the navy cape and I never regretted for one day
the choice I made.
Thinking through these memories is a journey I have enjoyed very
much.
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On the Sunday morning of my misadventure I went to the table Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Karaoke
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“You do look a little pale, I better give you some medicine and let
you go back to bed.” Mama had a counter plan.
She kept, in our medicine cabinet, a tonic, concocted and mar-
keted by Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, called Hadacol.
When asked about it’s name LeBlanc said, ““Well, I hadda’ call it
something!”
Hadacol contained so much alcohol (listed in the ingredients as
a preservative) that the city of Northbrook, Illinois, only allowed it
to be sold in liquor stores. Another mystery ingredient was called
diluted acid hydrochloric, alleged to open the arteries so the other
ingredients, including the “preservative”, could be absorbed more
quickly by the body. It sold for $1.25 for an eight ounce bottle. Mama
thought it cured anything that ailed you.
She gave me two tablespoons of Hadacol. It tasted like burnt mo-
tor oil laced with a dead buzzard, and garnished with wild onions.
I gagged and gasped. A volcanic river rushed over my tonsils. My
innards chugged like an air compressor. My eyes watered and my
nose ran. She then made me chase it with a snort of mineral oil (a
demonic relative of castor oil). Now I was sick enough to stay home
- but not to play.
I never again pretended to be sick. In fact I pretended to be well
when I was sick. The Hadacol and mineral oil cure was worse than
any disease. I believe it would cure fallen arches, falling hair, and
mild cases of leprosy. If I had to choose between the disease and the
cure, I’d choose leprosy.
The $1.25 mama paid for that bottle of Hadacol was well spent.
That one bottle, threatening from the medicine cabinet, kept me
well all the years of my childhood. Even now when I feel poorly I can
remember the Hadacol and mineral oil cure and begin to perk up.
Who knows how I might have turned out if mama had spent her
$1.25 on a book by a child rearing expert. I might be a bank robber,
arsonist, or serial killer.
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