Tag Archives: Collection of Brian Brown
Crystal Lake, Irwin County
This postcard image shows the pavilion and beach at Crystal Lake in its early days as a tourist attraction, circa 1964. Well known to locals since the 1860s, Crystal Lake was originally known as Bone Pond, for Willis Bone, a … Continue reading
Filed under --IRWIN COUNTY GA--
Pine Level Methodist Church, Circa 1955
Here’s one from the archives! I recently acquired this image of my father’s church, as it looked in the mid-1950s. What I’m most amazed by is all the ladies in their hats. Pine Level was constituted in 1889, and though … Continue reading
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--
Cotton Mill Girls, Tifton, 1909
Photograph by Lewis Hine; Courtesy of the Library of Congress Lewis W. Hine’s (1874 – 1940) photographs are credited with bringing to the national consciousness the plight of child laborers in early twentieth century America. Social historians consider these images a major influence … Continue reading
Filed under --TIFT COUNTY GA--, Tifton GA
Pate’s Bridge, Pulaski County, 1925
The Dixie-Overland Highway (Route 80) was an early automobile route, part of a larger thoroughfare connecting Savannah to San Diego.
Filed under --PULASKI COUNTY GA--
Brown’s Peach Farm Ad, Circa 1958
This is an old ad for my grandfather’s peach farm, the first such commercial business in Ben Hill County.
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--
Corn & Cotton Palace, Fitzgerald, 1897
This was built in 1897, and burned down soon thereafter. The late Beth Davis, Fitzgerald’s longtime historian, told me that the fire department, in an effort to show off their new equipment, threw fiery cloths onto the structure, which quickly … Continue reading
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--, Fitzgerald GA
Bookmobile, Fitzgerald Carnegie Library, 1944
http://www.fbhcl.org/History/History.html My very first job was at the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Library, in 1984; one of my first duties was riding along on the old bookmobile with Joyce Jackson, and then, with Patricia Netter.
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--, Fitzgerald GA
Odd Fellows Building, Fitzgerald
This building now houses Nabila’s Garden Restaurant, a popular Fitzgerald eatery.
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--, Fitzgerald GA
Lloyd Brown’s Peach Stand, 1958
This is my grandfather at the farm in 1958, with some of his prized peaches, and plenty of Coca-Cola to go around…
Filed under --BEN HILL COUNTY GA--
