Georgia, historical and industrial . everal murders in numerous predatoryraids. General Clarke, distinguished as Georgias great partisan leaderin the war for independence, gathered a party of volunteers and in thefight at Jacks creek gave the savage^ a salutary lesson, which greatly pro-moted the future security of the county. WAEE COUNTY. Ware County was laid out from Irwin in 1824, and was named inhonor of Hon. Nicholas Ware of Richmond county, who had served inthe Geoigia Legislature, was elected United States Senator in 1821, anddied in Ntw York in 1824. It is bounded by the following coun
Georgia, historical and industrial . everal murders in numerous predatoryraids. General Clarke, distinguished as Georgias great partisan leaderin the war for independence, gathered a party of volunteers and in thefight at Jacks creek gave the savage^ a salutary lesson, which greatly pro-moted the future security of the county. WAEE COUNTY. Ware County was laid out from Irwin in 1824, and was named inhonor of Hon. Nicholas Ware of Richmond county, who had served inthe Geoigia Legislature, was elected United States Senator in 1821, anddied in Ntw York in 1824. It is bounded by the following counties:Appling on the north. Pierce en the east, Charlton on the south andalso on the east for some distance; Plorida on the on the southwest and Coffee on the west. It is awell-watered county. Several miles north of the center Satillariver crosses it from west to east and into it flow from north tosouth several creeks. Long and Deep creeks traverse its cen-tral section from northwest to southeast, where they mingle their. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 865 waters with Okefinokee Swamp, which covers the greater part of the ex-treme southern section. The lands are level and interspersed with manyswamps. The soil is light but productive in sugar-cane, cotton, com,potatoes, tobacco, peaches, melons, figs and oranges. All the fruits herementioned grow well. It is a splendid county for stock-raising. Cattle and sheep have afine range over the uncultivated lands, where the grass affords excellentgrazing the year round. The mild winters malce shelter the exception of sheep-shearing and milking the cows almost noattention beyond marking and branding is required. The pine and cypress timber is very valuable, and rosin, turpentineand lumber are obtained in large quantities. The annual output of lum-ber is 50,000,000 superficial feet at an average price of $ a thou-sand feet. Seven steam sawmills are kept busy getting it ready formarket. There are ten
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