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DUCKTOWN
from 20D
In the back of one of the stores
was a barber shop that was owned
by Arthur Sounds. His clippers
were manually operated because
there was no electricity in the lit
tle hamlet. Sounds gave shaves
with a straight razor.
The town also had a constable
and a small jail, which everyone
called a “calaboose.” The cala
boose was about eight by ten feet,”
remembers Hawkins. “I remember
seeing someone in it once, but I
don’t remember why they were
there. Everybody knew one anoth
er and if there was a problem, it
was usually worked out long
before anyone went to jail.”
However, occasionally on
Saturday evenings some of the
local citizens would get into fights
and the constable, Frank Cochran,
would lock them up until they
became sober and paid a small
fine.
In the early 19305, Mt. Pisgah,
New Harmony, Talant and
Ducktown schools were consoli
dated in Ducktown school and
school buses were used to trans
port students there. Fred Hawkins
owed one of the first buses used to
transport kids to the school. The
first principal was Gus Housley,
who had moved to Forsyth County
from Dahlonega, married and
chose to make his home in the
county.
In the early 19305, fire
destroyed the cotton gin, garage,
mule barn, jail, cotton warehouse,
post office and blacksmith shop.
“I remember my dad waking me in
the night and we went to see the
fire,” said Evans. “The warehouse
was filled with cotton that
belonged to area farmers. When
we got there, people in the com
munity were hauling bales of cot
ton out of the warehouse and
putting it in the road. This was the
first time I ever saw a woman in
the warehouse. The women help
ing lift bales of cotton was
unheard of at the time, but not a
bale of cotton was lost because
everyone worked together.”
Evans remembers a large well
located near the gin that was used
for water by the boilers in the
town. “But there were no pumps
and no way to put out the fire,”
Evans remembers. “We could only
watch as the fire put itself out.”
Several houses were located in
the town until some of them I
burned and were not rebuilt.
In the late 30s, people began
growing chickens and cattle - cot
ton was no longer the main cash
crop of farmers.
When Hwy. 20, which connect
ed Canton and Cumming, was
built, it bypassed Ducktown and
the town ceased to exist even
ithough it still has ft'ihdrttr
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