Georgia Southwestern State University - Gale Yearbook (Americus, GA)

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5 ff t +- : F' ' . t A ,. . gig X 1 ., W 1: X A Short Outline Q' the History of Americus, Georgia compiled Au- gust 1869 by 'The Compiler gives the following: Sometimes about the middle of July, in the year of 1832, Messrs. Green M. Wheeler, James W. Bai- ley, Stephen Buran and, in three or four days after them, Mr. Wright Brady, encamped on what is now the cotton yard of the Southwestern Railroad Depot, with the intention of settling in and building up the town of Americus. Not long before this, a part of Lee had been cut off 6 from that county, by the Legislature of Georgia, formed into a separate county, and named Sumter, and a committee appointed by them to survey a suitable lot of land, on which to build a county seat, this they had just completed and named it Americus. The original size of the town was one lot of land, No. 156, in the 27th District. Here there was a town, casa vel populos ine civ- ities, neither house nor inhabitant, save these four campers, with the sound of whose axes the woods were now ringing, the trees falling and their logs assuming rapidly the shape of the first house in Ameri- cus, and if all tales we hear be true, a set of merry cusses they were, but fearless, honest, hard working man - men who worked with a vim unknown to the clerky, carpet knights of the present generation, in whose nostrils honest toil stinks, whose faces were never made to sweat with tillage, and whose highest aspirations are to be a noble police or a clerk in a shebang. . . .