The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . e there is abetter type of plain, good, contented, pious people than inEffingham, and their descendants are found in all sectionsof the low-country of Georgia, and wherever found arerecognized as among the worthiest of the people.* RICHMOND. / Richmond was named in honor of the Duke of Rich-mond. It was originally-St. Pauls parish, andwhen it was made in,1777 it included all ofColumbia and parts ofMcDuffie, Warren andJefferson counties. Asthese counties will comeunder our survey in theproper time, it will onlybe necessary now togive a
The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860 . e there is abetter type of plain, good, contented, pious people than inEffingham, and their descendants are found in all sectionsof the low-country of Georgia, and wherever found arerecognized as among the worthiest of the people.* RICHMOND. / Richmond was named in honor of the Duke of Rich-mond. It was originally-St. Pauls parish, andwhen it was made in,1777 it included all ofColumbia and parts ofMcDuffie, Warren andJefferson counties. Asthese counties will comeunder our survey in theproper time, it will onlybe necessary now togive attention to Rich-mond as it stands. In the early parts ofthis history and in thechapter on Augustanearly everything ofinterest connected with this county, up to the Revolution,has been narrated, and in the historv of Augusta much ofthe after revolutionary history is given. Richmond is inthe main a county of rather sterile pine woods, save onsome of the creeks and on the river, where the land is a rich,alluvial which at one time was very productive. Before. St. Pauls Church. * In the first chapter of this History, in the account of the German settle-ment, the early history of these people is to be found. 1782-1789.] AND THE Georgia People. 125 the lands on the river above Augusta were cleared of theirforests the river-bed was deeper and the stream more rapidthan it is at this day, and the freshets which come nowalmost annually were infrequent a hundred and twentyyears ago. Then these lands were considered very valua-ble, and wealthy planters had large plantations in theswamps which brought a rich return. They are now turnedlargely into hay farms and are still valuable. The pinelands were for a long time esteemed only for their timberand as a range for cattle. There was some of this land,however, which had a good subsoil of clay which was, whenmanured, quite productive, and while it was not esteemedas first-class land, it repaid the tillers toil, and even muchof the land which wa
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