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Camden County Miscellaneous News Stories
There is a new steamboat now on the ways, which
will be finished this winter. It is a propeller, about 150 feet long and of beautiful model, and, as the
Brunswick Appeal says, “built by S. L. Burns & Co., of course, as no one else is allowed to do anything in
that thriving village,” B. & Co. get the material (live oak and yellow pine) from their own lands, with their
own men, build the boat in their own yard, and with their regular employees, except the designer or superintendent;
and a member of the firm says: “If any one else wants to build a boat, they are welcome to use our yard and ways,
and can help themselves to the material where it grows.”
The handsome
new hotel is now open in this place, and a small new steamer has arrived or “reported” to play around our rivers
and harbor. The doors of Florida opened early this winter and visitors are pouring in by every train and
boat. We are giving occasional glances up toward this side of the Okefenokee, to see if anything from Atlanta
comes through. The party will have a better chance to make the trip than they could have had at any time
previously. Old inhabitants say they do not remember seeing so dry a fall in fifty years. We hope if
that party does succeed in penetrating the big swamp, they will (if they can get near enough) tell those fellows
of the Georgia Cavalry that the war is over, and help them surry the moss off their shoulders, salt them gradually
and carefully, and get them tame and lead them out...Yours, etc. Falconton
[The Georgia Weekly Telegraph November 30, 1875 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Fire in Camden County – Brunswick Appeal: On the 19th of
January, Mr. Almond's dwelling house, kitchen, stable and barn, with about four hundred bushels of corn, and about
five thousand pounds of fodder, was destroyed by fire. An out building was set on fire by a spark from the
chimney. The roof being much decayed, and the wind blowing hard, the fire soon did its work. We did
not hear of his misfortune for several days after its occurrence. [Georgia Weekly Telegraph February
18, 1879 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Kingsland, Sept 9 – A new bank will be opened at Kingsland, in Camden County, in the near future.
The new banking institution, which will be known as the State Bank of Kingsland, will be incorporated at $25,000
and the following are its incorporators: J. H. Gross, at Evergreen, Fla., and H. J. Carswell, J.
B. Smith, W. H. King, C. A. Perry and C. T. Proctor, all of Kingsland. Work on a new building for the
bank will be started in the near future and it is expected it will be completed by the first of the coming year. [The Macon Daily Telegraph September 10, 1912 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Jeffersonton Destroyed by Fire – The Savannah Herald
of Monday says: We learn from a gentleman from Camden County that a disastrous conflagration occurred at the village
of Jeffersonton, on the Satilla River, one day last week. Nearly all the building were destroyed, with five
or six bags of cotton, and some fifteen hundred bushels of rice.
Mr. A. B. Land had a total loss of his store and
stock, to the amount of from $3,000 to $5,000.
Mr. Joseph Einstein lost from $3,000 to $5,000.
Mr. G. Lang lost about $1,500.
Mr. Edward Lang suffered a loss of from $3,000
to $5,000.
Dr. E. H. Hart lost everything, and Dr. George
Lang was partly burned out.
The office of the Internal Revenue was partly burned,
and most of the papers lost.
The fire was set by an incendiary in the store
of F. Birnbaum & Co., who suffered a total loss. We do not learn that there was any insurance on the property.
[Georgia Weekly Telegraph November 15, 1867 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Waycross, April 12 – Rev. Claude Bridges, of Macon, has accepted the call to the Kingsland and Reuhama
churches in Camden County. He has been engaged until the close of the associational year in October.
After that date he may move to Kingsland. [The Macon Daily Telegraph April 13, 1915 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Waycross, Ga. - Aug. 8 – One of the most unusual cases of insanity ever reported from Camden County is that of
Katie Dawson just declared insane after a hearing before Judge Russell of St. Mary's. The negress
was taken with a pain in her neck while washing about ten days ago at Oakwell. Insanity of the worst kind
developed rapidly and the woman had to be bound.
Before she
was taken to St. Mary's for trial she attempted to set fire to a house and had a charge of arson against her.
Once arrested the negress refused to eat and eight days have passed without a morsel passing into her mouth.
She also refuses drink and unless something can be done to force her to take nourishment she cannot survive much
longer. [The Columbus Ledger August 8, 1911 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
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