Book Description
Welcome to Fort Valley brings to light the stories and ways of living of the people of Fort Valley, Virginia, from their 18th century beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century.
Author : Jeanette Conner Ritenour
Publisher : Fort Valley Museum Incorporated
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fort Valley (Va.)
ISBN : 9780983023500
Welcome to Fort Valley brings to light the stories and ways of living of the people of Fort Valley, Virginia, from their 18th century beginnings to the dawn of the 21st century.
Author : Gilda E. Stanbery
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531661250
Author : Gilda E. Stanbery
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0738590894
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.
Author : Georgia. Department of Agriculture
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Georgia State Horticultural Society
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 1885
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Ponderosa pine
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Author : Georgia State Horticultural Society
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Page : 866 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Fruit-culture
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Author : Georgia. Department of Agriculture
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Automobile industry and trade
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Georgia
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