Lowndes Grand Jury of 1833
When the May 1833 term of the Lowndes County, GA Superior court convened, the now defunct town of Franklinville was the site of the County seat of government. Lowndes then included most of present...
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Jane Quarterman appointed to Faculty at Georgia Southwestern Lab School 1938
Jane Quarterman (1905-2005) Jane Quarterman at South Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Southern University) 1938. Quarterman served as Art Editor on the college yearbook staff. The Quarterman farm...
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Judge Lott Warren
Judge Lott Warren presided over the Lowndes County Grand Jury of 1833, at Franklinville, GA, the county seat of Lowndes which then included most of present day Berrien County. Lott Warren was the...
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Portrait of Harry Elmore DeVane (1922-1946)
Special thanks to Joseph Johnson for contributing this photo. Portrait of Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Harry Elmore DeVane (1922-1946) U.S.N. in winter service dress uniform. Image courtesy of Joseph...
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Henry Harrison Knight Wrote City Charter for Nashville, GA
Henry Harrison Knight with wife Mary Susan Ray and their son Levi Jackson Knight circa 1896. The Knight home was at Ray City, GA. Image detail courtesy of http://www.berriencountyga.com Henry Harrison...
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John W. Hagan Encounters the Georgia Melish
The Civil War letters of John William Hagan document in part the actions of the Berrien Minute Men, a Confederate infantry raised in Berrien County, GA by Ray City settler, General Levi J. Knight. In...
View Article29th Georgia Regiment at Camp Wilson near Savannah, GA
Berrien County, GA sent forth in the Civil War two companies of men known as the Berrien Minute Men. In the early months of the war, the Campfires of the Berrien Minute Men made along the Georgia...
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The Sulky Race
From The Bench and Bar of Georgia published in in 1858 comes a tale of woe on the old Southern Circuit Court of Georgia. The time frame given in the story would seem to place the event sometime in...
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Regimental Feud at Camp Wilson Near Savannah, GA
“Sin and wickedness prevails… In January of 1862, the campfires of the Berrien Minute Men and the 29th Georgia Regiment were made at Camp Wilson near Savannah, GA. This camp was initially established...
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Judge Carleton Bicknell Cole
Carleton Bicknell Cole Judge Carleton Bicknell Cole (1803-1876) Carleton B. Cole twice served as judge of the Southern Circuit and later presided over the courts of the Macon Circuit. In 1848 in the...
View Article1899 Sketch of Old Lowndes County
In 1856, Berrien County was cut out of Lowndes County, GA. Long before that all of this section, including Lowndes was encompassed in the original county of Irwin. The following is a sketch of the...
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William Devane
William DeVane (1838-1909), planter of Ray’s Mill, Berrien County, GA. His brother, Benjamin Mitchell DeVane (1835-1912), was a notary public and an alderman in the city government of Adel, GA. Image...
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In 1850, Levi J. Knight Opposed Secession
Reynolds’s Political Map of the United States Designed to Exhibit the Comparative Area of the Free and Slave States and the Territory open to Slavery or Freedom by the Repeal of the Missouri...
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Smiths of Ray City
Thomas Jefferson Smith (1864-1946) Ray City home of Thomas Jefferson Smith and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sirmans Smith, formerly located on the southeast corner of Main Street and Swindle Street, Ray City, GA...
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The Old Gray Mill
Banks Mill, Milltown (now Lakeland), Georgia Reprinted in the June 9, 1887 edition of the Sandersville Herald… a poem by American writer, politician, lawyer and doctor Thomas Dunn English undoubtedly...
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Richard Augustus Peeples, Clerk of the Berrien Courts
Richard Augustus Peeples Richard Augustus Peeples (1829-1891) Richard Augustus Peeples was the seventh son of Henry Peeples. He was born in Hall county, Georgia, September 24th, 1829 His father “Henry...
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Judge Richard Augustus Peeples
Richard Augustus Peeples (1829-1891) continued from Richard Augustus Peeples, Clerk of the Berrien Courts. Richard Augustus Peeples (1829-1891) Richard Augustus Peeples was the seventh son of Henry...
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The Booby Clift Affair in Valdosta
The Clift Affair occurred at the Valdosta Courthouse on Saturday, April 4, 1868. Much of what has been written about the incident at Valdosta has minimized what would today undoubtedly be categorized...
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The American Monument at the Mull of Oa
On October 12, 1918, American newspapers revealed the terrible loss of lives in the sinking of the H. M. S. Otranto just weeks before the end of WWI. Berrien County, GA paid a terrible toll....
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Freedmen of Lowndes County: 658 Georgia Militia District
Tax Records of Freedmen of Lowndes County, GA as listed in the 1870 Tax Digest The 1870 Property Tax Digest for Lowndes County, GA was a tax roll of adult male residents. The rolls were organized by...
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