A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . wah House,southeast corner of Broad Streetand Second Avenue, and in 1863the proprietor was Gen. Geo. The Tennessee House was start-ed at the end ui the Civil War by 92 A History of Rome and Floyd County Jas. A. Stansbury. It stood at thenortheast corner of Broad Streetand First Avenue, and later be-came the Rome Hotel. The first newspaper, accordingto The Weekly Bulletin of Thurs-day, Jan. 8, 1876, was the WesternGeorgian, published by G
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . wah House,southeast corner of Broad Streetand Second Avenue, and in 1863the proprietor was Gen. Geo. The Tennessee House was start-ed at the end ui the Civil War by 92 A History of Rome and Floyd County Jas. A. Stansbury. It stood at thenortheast corner of Broad Streetand First Avenue, and later be-came the Rome Hotel. The first newspaper, accordingto The Weekly Bulletin of Thurs-day, Jan. 8, 1876, was the WesternGeorgian, published by Gen. and Samuel S. Jack.* Itwas started in 1837, and Mr. Jackwas the first editor. The locationwas at 602 East First Street, wherea hand press was installed. Thiswas on the spot where Mrs. NaomiP. Bale now lives. Pisgah Baptist church at Coosais the oldest religious institutionof its kind in the county. It wasorganized in the spring of 1833 byRev. Hugh Quin and associates. The First Presbyterian of Romewas founded at Livingston , 1833, and removed to RomeApr. 17, 1845, by Rev. J. M. The First Baptist is the oldest. REV. J. M. M. CALDWELL, Presbyterianminister and for about 40 years teacher ofyoung women at Rome. church in Rome, having beenfounded May 16, 1835.** The First Methodist was organ-ized at Rome in 1840 by Mrs. Sam-uel S. Jack, Mrs. James Hammet;Mrs. Daniel R. Mitchell, MrsJesse Lamberth, Mrs. SamuelStewart and Miss Emily location was the southwestcorner of Sixth Avenue and E. Sec-ond Street. The circuit of whichRome was an appointment in 1836extended from Knoxville, Tenn., tothe Chattahoochee River, and B. McFerrin, of Tennessee, stoodevery four months on a stump atFifth Avenue and West First Street(now the courthouse property) andjjreached to mixed crowds of In-dians, negroes and whites.*** Onone of these occasions Dr. McFer-rin converted John Ross, whothereafter spread the doctrines ofMethodism among his tribes-men.****
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