Excerpt from Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, Vol. 1 of 2: Illustrated To the task of compiling this work the leisure hours of a somewhat busy life have been devoted for the past four years. During this period of time every section of the State has been visited in person by the anthor, He has delved into the court house records kept at the most important county seats in Geor gia; has gone through the files of old newspapers, has bent over crumbling tombstones in ancient church-yards and burial grounds to decipher the almost obliterated epitaphs; and, leaving the beaten highways of travel, has followed the obscure bridle paths into many. An unfrequented nook and corner of the State. Something over one hundred libraries have been consulted, in addition to which thousands of letters have been written, There is not a patriotic society in Georgia which has not contributed substantially to the progress of this undertaking. Much of the rare information contained In White' s two priceless volumes long since out of. Print - has been transferred to this work, with due credit, While the essential portions of Sherwood' s quaint little Gazetteer have. Likewise been embodied in georgia 's landmarks, memorials and legends' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.