Fort Valley - Couverture souple

Stanbery, Gilda E; Khoury, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0738590894 ISBN 13 : 9780738590899

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2013

Synopsis

As early as 1822, James Abbington Everett established a trading post at the convergence of Native American trails, which became known as Fort Valley and eventually the world's Peach Paradise. The 1856 charter established city limits as one mile in each direction from the railroad depot, and large cotton plantations devoted to peaches, asparagus, and pecans lay beyond. By the 1860s, more than 30 percent of Georgia's cotton traveled on rail lines through Fort Valley. During the Civil War, there were multiple Buckner and Gamble field hospitals, as well as temporary ones in what are now Fort Valley's historic homes and structures. The development of the Elberta peach, the refrigerated railroad car, hydro-cooling, and rail connections to transport fragile peaches combined to make Fort Valley the peach-growing center of the South. People prospered, and thousands celebrated the peach at the Peach Blossom Festivals of the 1920s. Fort Valley became home to the Blue Bird Body Co., Wanderlodge, the American Camellia Society, and Fort Valley State University. Motorists traveling on the Old Dixie Highway, Andersonville Trail, Presidential Parkway, or the Golden Isles Parkway are still treated to the warm hospitality of Fort Valley.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gilda E. Stanbery and James E. Khoury have compiled this pictorial tribute to Fort Valley and its people, presenting Fort Valley's history through many previously unpublished images.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738590894
• ISBN 13: 9780738590899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible