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tween Sixth and Seventh Avenues, next to and north of the City Audi- torium.
CAVES AROUND ROME .- The best known cave in Floyd County is at Cave Spring, sixteen miles south- west of Rome. From this flows a spring that is an important part of Little Cedar Creek, and from which
the town is supplied with pure, spark- ling water through a ram, at practi- cally no cost. Entrance is effected in a steep, rocky bluff immediately above the point whence the water issues, and still higher is a second opening, lined with rusty brown boulders. It is pos- sible to go quite a distance down on a ladder. Water and beautiful stalac- tites and stalagmites are found; it is
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said there are small blind fish in the miniature lake of the interior. Thou- sands of people visit the cave yearly front all directions.
On a ridge equidistant between the old Lytle Park in South Rome and De- Soto Park, back of the home of J. Nephew King and on his land, is what used to be known as Jonas King's cave. This is easily entered and candles or lamps reveal large, irregularly shaped compartment, at the bottom of which flows a small stream. There are several smaller compartments con- nected by tunnels which must be erawl- ed through on the stomach. At cer- tain intervals during the Civil War this cave was used as a "magazine" for the storage of gun powder made from the salt peter in Bartow Coun- ty, and for other war materials. At one time also the magazine had been located on Myrtle Hill cemetery near the section which now contains the mortal remains of 277 Confeder- ate soldiers. The entrance of this cave is in a small oak grove and is free from obstructions.
Rome's so-called "salt peter cave" is about half a mile north of Reece's spring, in North Rome. This is ob- seured by a heavy growth of under- brush in the center of a cultivated field. Small boys say the Oostanaula River, perhaps a mile and a half away, can be reached through the cave, but nobody has ever ventured to explore it to that extent. In 1854 it was called Nix's Cave by White's Historical Col- lections of Georgia.
Mitchell's cave, named after Daniel R. Mitchell, is located in the face of Whitmore's Bluff, nine miles up the Oostanaula River. A cool stream of water flows out of it and treakles laughingly down the mountainside to the silvery Oostanaula. White's Col- lections called it Woodward Cave and stated it was once a noted cache for stolen goods.
Another cave of some interest can be found on Black's Bluff, three miles down the Coosa River. It was ex- plored more than a year ago by a group of Boy Scouts.
A large cave is located in Turkey Mountain, northeastern end of Texas Valley, and another of some size in Texas Valley is on the farm of the late J. J. Fisher.
William Salmon's place, quarter of a mile south of Armuchee Creek, on the Summerville road, contains a cave.
When Rome was first settled a cave was found in the northern part of Myr-
tle Hill cemetery, and Indian relies and skeletons were discovered.
On May 23, 1922, a cave was found on the Peek place 1,000 feet south of Bird Station, quarter of a mile from the Polk County line. It was explored by County Engineer Kieffer Lindsey and County Commissioner J. E. Camp, who found it to be 30 feet deep and 20 feet wide at the bottom. The walls were smooth and composed of hard shale roek, and they tapered into a cone-shape toward the top. Mr. Lind- sey was the first man who had ever entered it, for the earth at the open- ing had just given away when he was called. He threw a lighted newspaper to the bottom. The paper exhausted the oxygen, so when he went down by rope his lantern was extinguished. His opinion was that the place had been a lime-sink and the lime had worn away through erosion, leaving an un- derground chamber as perfectly form- ed as the cupola of a knight's castle.
CAVE SPRING, MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM ON .- "At last we as- cended a rising ground, from which we could see the tapering spires and arch- ing roofs of the most beautiful town in Georgia. There sat Cave Spring like a happy school girl, framed in a setting of green and gold, with the deep blue sky and the purple hills of the Coosa in the background; Little Cedar Creek bubbling melodiously at her feet; the vine-elad summits of the hills rising overhead; the streets wind- ing leisurely along through verdant bowers, under spreading branches and over grassy levels; each happy home nestled cozily among the yards and gardens, orchards and vineyards. It was a scene onee beheld never to be forgotten.'
CAVE SPRING, HENRY W. GRA- DY ON .- Henry W. Grady, traveling with the Georgia Press Excursion be- tween Rome and Selma, Ala., wrote as follows for the Sept. 10, 1869, is- sue of the Rome Weekly Courier: "Our first stop was made at Cave Spring, and all hands made a flying visit to the cave, and to many of the party it was quite a show. From the cave, many visited the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and all united in pronounc- ing Cave Spring one of the most beau- tiful spots in all the land. but were at a loss to understand why the railroad did not pass through the town. I will not repeat the sad story of old fogy- ism that was related to us as a rea-
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son. Suffice to say, property sudden- ly became valuable, right-of-way a ter- rible obstacle, and the boss of the road simply made a little curve, and went around our forest village."
CAVE SPRING, COL. JNO. L. MARTIN ON .- Col. Jno. L. Martin wrote as follows of Cave Spring in the Anniston (Ala.) Hot Blast in 1888 :
"There is no more beautiful inter- vallation in all the Blue Ridge chain of mountains than Vann's Valley, and its most charming scenery is in and about Cave Spring. No one, unless he be a dullard, can look upon the out- stretching panorama of Vann's Valley without being lastingly impressed with its marvelous picture, in which there stand forth most striking beauties of wooded mountainside, groves of majes- tic trees, greensward on whose bosom rest in gentlest touch most inviting shades, and through which, like loved bands of silver, there merrily run bab- bling streams of pure water, fresh from the dark depths of the sternal hills.
"Cave Spring and its surroundings is one of the most picturesque and pleasant spots in the world. It is a spot where nature has lavished her deftest charms with captivating wealth, and is, like Auburn of old, the fair- est village of all the plain. Its nat- ural attractiveness is almost peerless. Some day when the younger genera- tion takes charge, grand hotels, bath- ing houses, fountains and parks will draw to this spot each succeeding sum- mer thousands of guests, every one of whom will become a lover." (The col- onel evidently meant "nature lover."- Author.)
CHEROKEE ARTILLERY (LA_ TER CORPUT'S BATTERY) .-- The following were the original officers of this concern, organized early in 1861: Captain-M. A. Stovall.
First Lieut .- J. G. Yeiser.
Second Lieut .- J. H. Lawrence.
Third Lieut .- Max V. D. Corput. Fourth Lieut .- C. O. Stillwell. First Sergt .- T. D. Attaway. Second Sergt .- J. M. Bowen. Third Sergt .- G. N. Sandifer. Fourth Sergt .- A. S. Hamilton. Fifth Sergt .- Wm. Noble. Sixth Sergt .- J. B. Clark.
First Corporal-T. F. Hooper. Second Corporal-D. G. Love.
Third Corporal-Jno. S. Holland. Fourth Corporal-R. M. Farrar.
Fifth Corporal-S. Magnus. Sixth Corporal-G. B. Butler. Surgeon-Dr. Robt. Battey.
CENTRAL GROVE DISTRICT .--- This part of Floyd County was settled in 1854, Jimmie Duke and his family being the first settlers. Mr. Duke bought 160 acres of land at the inter- section of the O'Brien and Central Grove roads for a gun valued at $25. His son, Lumpkin Duke, was a prom- inent man in the neighborhood and raised a large family, the boys of which engaged in the saw mill busi- ness. Two of his sons, Lumpkin and Tom Duke, are now living in Rome and are still engaged in the same kind of work.
Jim Duke's brother, Green R. Duke, settled on what is known as the Green Duke place in 1860. His son, Martin M. Duke, who is now living in this neighborhood, is the oldest living de- scendant of the original settlers. Mar- tin M. Duke gave the land on which the Central Grove School was built in 1900. The institution was known as the Duke School House for many years. Mrs. Henry O. Littlejohn, one of his daughters, lives near the school. An- other early settler was Joel Stowe, who was a noted barbecuer. Assisted by William A. Littlejohn, he barbecued the meat for the joint encampment of the Confederate and Union veterans at Chickamauga 35 years ago. W. A. Littlejohn, his stepson, lives near Cen- tral Grove School. Jesse P. Ayers, who settled on what is known as the Math Beard place, was another one of the pioneers. He was the father of Mrs. Georgia Allen, Frank and Ab. Ayers, all still living in this commu- nity. Some of the present residents who are doing work of interest to the public are R. L. Brown, who taught when the school was located where Mountain Springs church now stands and is now county surveyor; W. Ed. Beard, who has been bailiff for a num- ber of years; W. P. Bradfield, who is one of the county commissioners and has been instrumental in giving this part of the county its share of good roads; Willis Griffin, a strong advo- cate of Tom Watson, who was reared in this settlement; Henry O. Littlejohn, who served the Berry School for the longest continuous period of any of its employees, in charge of much of the carpentry work and the superintend- ent who built all of the log houses; C. Ira Butler, who is prominent in church and Sunday School work, and a song leader; and M. A. Hughes, who
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found on his farm the Indian relics displayed at the North Georgia Fair in October, 1921; O. L. Titrud, who came from Minnesota in the fall of 1907 to teach agriculture at the Berry Schools and held that position for eight years, helping to lay the foundation for the agricultural work of the school. He was the first president of the Floyd County Farm Bureau and is now a member of the Advisory Board for Glenwood District. He has developed a laying strain of Barred Rock chick- ens; is a breeder of Holstein cattle, and has developed a variety of white cob yellow dent corn. Mr. Titrud was one of the division presidents of the Georgia Sunday School Association for a number of years and was succeeded by Fair C. Moon. He is now secre- tary of the County Sunday School As- sociation, and has been superintendent of the Central Grove Sunday School ever since the church was organized. He is also lay leader of the Rome cir- cuit of the Methodist Episcopal church. Central Grove School District has been prominent in the work fostered by the county agricultural and home demon- stration agents. The following people have been especially interested and helpful in the home demonstration
work : Mrs. W. A. Littlejohn, Mrs. C. I. Butler, Mrs. H. O. Littlejohn and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Titrud. Lillie Bell Butler received the first scholarship here to the Athens short course in can- ning work. Beulah Buchanan Titrud won a scholarship for poultry work. Lois Littlejohn won two scholarships for home demonstration work. Among the boys who received prizes were Al- bert Littlejohn, for Pig Club work; Jack Beard and Benson Butler, for Corn Club work, and Clyde Titrud for Calf Club work. Central Grove won second prize for community exhibits at the North Georgia Fair of 1921. There are two Methodist churches in this lo- cality, Mountain Springs church, which was moved from the Summerville road about 1900, and Central Grove, organ- ized June 28, 1914. *
CHILDREN'S FREE CLINIC .- Since Floyd County was the leader among Georgia provinces to adopt the Ellis Public Health law, unusual in- terest attaches to the early results. The law was adopted in 1915 on the approval of two successive grand juries, and the County Board of Health was then organized and Dr. M. M. McCord chosen county commissioner of health from a field of twelve appli- cants from over the state. The board
was composed of Jno. C. King, chair- man, as county superintendent of schools; J. G. Pollock, by virtue of his office as chairman of the County Board of Roads and Revenues; and Dr. Wm. P. Harbin, elected by the grand jury. Active work of the health office began Jan. 1, 1916. Appreciat- ing the need of a thorough canvass of the county, Dr. McCord applied to the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., for a corps of public health med- ical experts to prepare a survey. Op- position was met at first, but it was overcome, and from March to Novem- ber a staff working under the direc- tion of Maj. L. L. Lumsden, U. S. A., gathered data for a survey.
Every home, school, church, factory, dairy, cafe, drug store, hotel, grocery store, meat market and slaughter pen was visited and an examination made looking to the prevention of commu- nicable disease.
Dr. McCord was ex-officio medical inspector of the public schools, and he made frequent visits and delivered a series of lectures on sanitation and personal hygiene. Of 6,000 children examined, it was found that 40 per cent of them had serious physical de- fects, either curable or correctible through medical or surgical skill or dental attention. Card index records were kept and reports made to parents. Every effort was made to the end that each defective child should report to dentist or physician. On checking the cards the second year, Dr. McCord found that while several hundred chil- dren had received attention, one-third of the defectives were unable to pay for professional services and had had nothing done. He therefore associat- ed with him one of the teachers in the public schools in a plan for a free clinic. Civic organizations and citi- zens contributed the necessary money and a competent nurse was put in charge of the Children's Free Clinic in Municipal Building quarters. The ex- periment in Floyd County proved a fine investment and received warm ap- proval all over the state. Dr. Mc- Cord resigned in 1919 and he was suc- ceeded by Dr. Eugene O. Chimene, who resigned in 1921 to go to Greenville, S. C. Dr. B. V. Elmore, an experienced health official of Blountstown, Fla., was elected to the vacancy, and still fills it. Dr. Elmore has been relent- less in his war on germs, mosquitoes, flies and their ilk, and is doing his part to maintain the reputation of Rome and Floyd as the healthiest parts of an unusually healthy section.
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At top, the blacksmith shop of the Berry Schools, and a group of earnest workers. All metal part repairs for the farm are made here. At the bottom is the wood shop, over' the other. This is in charge of Mr. Nesbit, an experienced carpenter and wood worker, who teaches his boys to make hall trees, lamp stands, book cases, cabinets, and furniture of all kinds. This place is a stranger to loafers and shams.
CITY CLERKS .- The first mention of City Clerks comes in a Rome Week- ly Courier of 1852. As deputy clerk Chas. H. Smith issued an official notice under date of July 15. It is safe to assume that Mr. Smith soon thereafter wrote and talked himself into a clerk- ship. D. Clinton Hargrove was clerk in 1860, Reuben S. Norton in 1865, and Henry A. Smith (mayor in 1870-1) just after him. The others, according
to the best recollections and records available, were Ed. F. Shropshire, 1870-1; Henry C. Norton, 1873-83; Win. Seay, 1883-7; Mitchell A. Nevin, 1887-April, 1894; Halstead Smith, April, 1894-1906; J. R. Cantrell, 1906- 12; Hugh Mccrary, 1912-17; J. M. Cooley, April 1 to Nov. 1; Sim F. Ma- gruder, Nov. 1, 1919 (incumbent).
J. H. McClung was City Treasurer in 1860 and his annual salary was $25.
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The City Clerk (Mr. Hargrove), drew $100, and the marshal, Samuel Stew- art, $650 for all his time.
COOSA. A village on the right bank of the Coosa River, eleven miles west of Rome, at the southern foot of Turnip Mountain and one mile south- west of Judy Mountain; center of the North Carolina District, which, with the exception of Rome and Cave Spring, pays more tax than any other district in the county. Nearby are the farms once or now owned by the Camps, Montgomerys, Quins, Turners, Deans, Sheltons, Catheys and McAr- vers, on which is raised some of the finest cotton in the South, and where great quantities of wheat were pro- duced in the old steamboat days. Some people erroneously call the place Coo- saville.
It was via Veal's Ferry at Coosa that the Confederate Army of Gen. Jno. B. Hood crossed the Coosa River after the fall of Atlanta in 1864, lead- ing Sherman's Army in a hot pursuit through Texas Valley and in the di- rection of Resaca and Dalton.
Coosa was first known as Missionary Station. In January, 1821, Rev. and Mrs. Elijah Butler were sent to this spot by the American Baptist For- eign Mission Society of South Canaan, Conn., and they set up a mission house for the religious and educational in- struction of the Indians. After eight years of arduous toil Mrs. Butler died there at 31 years of age, and was buried in front of the present home of Cicero Evans. A large wild cherry tree has grown up directly over her grave. Dr. Butler's activities among the Indians led to a charge by the Georgia authorities that he was in- citing them to revolt, and he and Rev. Samuel A. Worcester, of Vermont, who was stationed at the mission at New Echota, Gordon County, were sentenced to serve four years in the Georgia penitentiary, and served a year and four months. The United States Supreme Court had reversed the lower court, but Georgia disregard- ed the decision. The missionaries were released on their promise to leave the state.
An old description of Coosa by an appreciative visitor of 1888 reads: "Coosa does not boast any brownstone fronts towering spires, but when it comes to rolling up a tremendous Dem- ocratic majority, good living, solid comfort, or getting up a free show, or anything from a North Georgia fair to an old-time barbecue, you can set
her down as a file leader at the head of the column."
COURTS-The Inferior courts of before the Civil War gave way to the Superior and County (now City) courts. The first County Court of Floyd was organized in conformity with a general law passed Mar. 17, 1866, by the Georgia Legislature .* Rome was in the Tallapoosa Circuit of the Superior Court from 1864 until 1869, when the Rome Circuit, still ex- istent now, came into being .* Dennis Hills was the first clerk.
From Judge Joel Branham's book- let, "The Old Court House in Rome," (ps. 6 and 7) the following material is taken:
The Superior Court judges for the Tallapoosa Circuit were L. H. Feath- erston, 1864-7; Jno. W. H. Under- wood, 1867-9; Jno. S. Bigby, 1869.
The judges of the Rome Circuit were Francis A. Kirby, 1869-70; Robt. D. Harvey, 1870-73; Jno. W. H. Un- derwood, 1873-82; Joel Branham, 1882-8; Jno. W. Maddox, 1886-92; Wm. M. Henry, 1892-94; Waller T. Turnbull, 1894-96 .***
The County Court judges were D. Mack Hood, 1866-70; Wm. Barclay Terhune, Mar. 24, 1873-1874; Richard R. Harris, July, 1874-1879; Junius F. Hillyer, May 30, 1883-Sept. 27, 1883.
In 1883 the County Court became the City Court by an act passed Sept. 25 and 27,* and the judges who served were Richard R. Harris, 1894- 98; Jno. H. Reece, 1898-1903; Harper Hamilton, 1903-10; W. J. Nunnally, May to October, 1910; Jno. H. Reece, 1910-15 .*****
Jesse Lamberth served as Ordinary of Floyd County from 1861 to 1868, when he was succeeded by Henry J. Johnson, who served 25 years, until 1893 .******
The Solicitor General of the Supe- rior Court from 1882-6 was J. I. Wright, and of the County Court from 1866-70 Jas. P. Perkins; from 1873 until Octber, 1874, Dunlap Scott, and from December, 1874, until 1879, Col. Hamilton Yancey.
*Acts, 1865-6, p. 64.
** Acts, 1869, p. 20.
*** Since 1896 and to the present time the judges have been Moses R. Wright (incum- bent) and Jno. W. Maddox.
**** Acts, 1882-3, ps. 534-5.
***** W. J. Nunnally again became judge in 1915 and held the office until Sept. 13, 1922, when he was succeeded by Jno. W. Bale.
****** Henry J. Johnson was the father of the present ordinary, Harry Johnson, who suc- ceeded Jno. P. Davis, Judge Davis having suc- ceeded the elder Johnson.
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The clerk of the Superior Court from 1867-70 was Adolphus E. Ross .*
Nathan Yarbrough was Sheriff in 1866-7, and he was followed by Col. Jno. R. Towers. The justices of the peace in 1867 were Thos. J. Perry and Samuel Johnson.
A list of the lawyers of the period covered by Judge Branham's account will be found elsewhere herein.
Judge Jno. W. Maddox, former Su- perior Court justice, died at Rome Thursday, Sept. 28, 1922, aged 74, and was buried Friday in Myrtle Hill cem- etery, Rome.
CREEKS OF FLOYD COUNTY .- The principal creeks of Floyd County:
Armuchee, probably the largest ;** made up of East Armuchee and West Armuchee both rising in Chattooga County; flows southeasterly and emp- ties into Oostanaula River at Pope's Ferry and the farm of Mrs. Bessie Battey Troutman.
Big Cedar, the second largest; head- waters in Polk County; flows north- westerly and empties into Coosa River one mile east of the Alabama line.
Big Dry; rises on the southern side of Lavender Mountain, flows south- easterly through the Berry School property and empties into the Oosta- naula about three miles north of Rome.
Little Dry; rises in West Rome, flows easterly through the Flat Woods and empties into the Oostanaula at the Linton A. Dean place, near the Sum- merville road, one mile north of Rome.
Lavender; rises south of Rock Mountain, in Little Texas Valley, flows northeasterly through the valley and empties into Armuchee Creek a mile above Armuchee.
Heath; rises southeast of Simms' Mountain, flows northeasterly through Big Texas Valley and empties into Ar- muchee creek 2 miles above Armuchee.
Woodward; rises in Gordon and Bar- tow Counties, flows southwesterly and empties into the Oostanaula half a mile (by land) south of Pope's Ferry.
Jimmy Long; rises near Hermitage, Ridge Valley, flows westerly and empties into the Oostanaula a mile north of Harper Station.
Dykes'; named after Dr. G. J. Dykes, who came to Rome in 1836; rises on the southern side of Armstrong Moun- tain, flows south and empties into the Etowah River about a mile above Freeman's Ferry. It is fed by the large spring at Morrison's Camp Ground and other springs.
Barnsley; rises south of Armstrong Mountain, flows south through the western edge of Bartow County and empties into the Etowah in Bartow, three miles east of Bass' Ferry.
Spring; rises in Chulio distriet, runs northward to the Etowah between Freeman's and Bass' Ferry.
Spring; rises in Chulio district, runs northward to the Etowah between Freeman's and Bass' Ferries.
Silver; rises in Polk County six miles northeast of Cedartown, flows northward into the Etowah River mid- way between the East Rome and Broad Street bridges, at Rome.
Lake; rises four miles east of Ce- dartown in Polk County, flows gen- erally northwestward and empties into Big Cedar Creek near Chubbtown.
Little Cedar; rises near Etna in Polk County, flows northeastward and empties into Big Cedar Creek near Vann's Valley Station.
Spring; rises in Indian
Moun- tain, Polk County, practically on the Alabama line, flows northward into Floyd, then westward into Alabama and empties into the Coosa River near Yancey's Bend.
Mud; rises four miles west of Cave Spring, flows northwestward into Ala- bama and empties into the Coosa near Kirk's Grove, Ala.
Webb; rises near Landers and the Southern railroad, Vann's Valley, flows northwardly through the valley and empties into the Coosa at the W. Green Foster-Van Dyke farm, four miles northeast of Livingston. One of the headwaters of Webb Creek is the Cress Spring on the farm of Wm. S. Gib- bons, Cave Spring road.
Cabin; rises south of Simms' Moun- tain, western end of Lavender Moun- tain, flows southwardly and empties into the Coosa about a mile east of Coosa and Veal's Ferry.
Beach; rises a mile northeast of Judy Mountain, flows south, then west, and empties into the Coosa at Turner's Bend.
Burwell; rises on the old home place of Capt. Wm. Moore near the North Rome depot, Southern railway, flows west and empties into the Oostanaula quarter of a mile north of Rome.
Horseleg; rises three miles north of Horseleg Mountain (Mt. Alto), flows
*See Memorial of Feb. 2, 1891, in Minutes No. 25, p. 1.
** Authority : County Engineer Kieffer Lind- sey.
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eastward through Shorter College prop- erty and empties into the Coosa one mile west of Rome.
Note: Exact accuracy is not claimed for the above descriptions. The map principally consulted was the "Rome Quadrangle" of the U. S. Geological Survey, which is very helpful. A more elaborate map, but of a different char- acter, is the soil map published by the Federal Department of Agricul- ture, Washington, many copies of which have been sent out by Congress- man Gordon Lee.
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