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Issue 28 Thursday, July 9, 2020
New athletic
director hired
BY KRISTI WATKINS
The Georgia Post
A new athletic director has
been hired succeed Coach
Zachary for the 2020-2021
school year. Calvin Scan-
drett from Lamar County
will succeed Coach Zachary
after Zachary decided to
retire due to the coronavirus
outbreak.
Scandrett, who was
previously athletic director
at Butts and Lamar County
school districts, is originally
from Forsyth. Scandrett
comes Butts County who
spent two years with them
as an athletic director and
while at Lamar County spent
25 years with 13 years as its
athletics director and five
years as its head football
coach (2003-2007) and
ended as assistant principal
at Lamar County Middle
School. He was named
athletics director of the year
in his school’s region four
times in a 10-year span,
including a state athletics
director of the year award in
Class AA in 2010.
The board also discussed
budget amendments due to
austerity cuts making the
school systems throughout
the state to make major cuts
themselves. More meetings
will be needed to further
discuss possible cuts and
changes in the budget.
Athletic supplements will
also be reviewed for possible
cuts.
Milk giveaway at park
Gallon jugs of milk were given away Thursday in Roberta
City Park. Two of Jessica Pyles Newberry’s daughters helped
Melessa Lockett give out the jugs.
Carroll is a deputy sheriff
Ryan Carroll, right, has graduated as a Deputy Sheriff from
the academy in Forsyth GA. Sheriff Lewis Walker said, “We
are looking forward to watching him grow in his role as a
deputy sheriff.”
The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921
also serving Byron and Peach County 1 Section 10 Pages One Dollar
Knoxville courthouse full of stories
Crawford County’s “Old
Courthouse” has many sto
ries to tell if it could talk.
Crawford County became
one of Georgia’s county’s
in 1822. A stately Court
house was rebuilt in 1854
after the loss of many hand
written documents and the
original courthouse when it
burned down. The building
replaced, now known as the
“old Courthouse” has mem
ories, controversies, and
maybe even a ghost or two in
the attic.
It remains the ominous
structure in the county seat,
Knoxville, Georgia with the
Judge’s Chambers looking
down on the New County
Courthouse built in 2001.
There is a discrepancy in
the rebuild as one architect
inspector, Harold Bush-
Brown District Officer who
inspected the buildings
structure on December
1,1936 has the date 1851
approximately. His descrip
tion states materials used,
foundation being brick, first
floor masonry, and second
floor wood. The exterior
walls are brick and stuccoes
finish with a shingled roof.
Exterior is also lime stuccoes
as Bush-Duncan described
it was scored to represent
ashlar (sculpted to look like
stones). The granite stairs is
the only entrance way to the
second story and the court
room. In 1851, architects
John L. Barringer and his
brother William R. Rob
ertson were contracted to
rebuild the courthouse.
Cost to the county, was
$3800 and paid to the
contractors in payments
made by the Inferior Court
in payments until 1853. In
ferior Court is now called the
Probate Court.
In the first story hall, it
was once of brick patterned
like a brick road and you
walked down to the rooms
to take care of court matters.
Now you should not touch
the walls or the brick as it
crumbles.
In 1995 the rooms were set
up with Planning on Zoning
on the right, as you entered
the first story on the Hwy
80 being the front of the
building. At the left was the
Probate Court office with its
metal room safe for record
keeping. On your right,
another office was sacrificed
for restroom facilities. The
Sheriff, for many years in
fact, until 1970’s originally
used the room where plan
ning and zoning office kept
records. Tax Commissioner’s
office was the last room on
the right with add-on for the
Election Board room, grand
jury in later years. That was
the only room added on.
The old courthouse pictured top right. Other photos are of
some of the recently added displays inside the building.
On the left was Clerk of the
Superior Court Clerk with
metal rooms to keep records
safe. Across the street, the
Magistrate office was in
what is now Crawford Coun
ty Fire Department house.
Different boards used the
upstairs for meetings.
Up the granite stairs you
entered into the court
room facility with Judges
Chamber’s on your left and
prisoners awaiting charges
on the right room. Through
swing wood doors was the
entrance to the courtroom.
The judge was seated on the
riser and eventually there
was instruction to add air
conditioning. But it is said, a
judge closing the courthouse
said, you will have a new
courthouse built as I could
fall out of this window and it
is necessary. Of course being
built in 1854...it was not
handicap compliant.
To save this extraordinary
building with all its bricks
laid of sun dried curing and
wooden beams to restore the
building steeped in history
and on the Georgia Histor
ic Registry, will be half a
million dollars and more to
finish. Tours are being given
to all who would like to go
through the building.
The courthouse, Georgia
Post Printing Company, Old
Jail and the Pottery Museum
are all on the tour route and
under the protection of the
Crawford County Historical
Society which has been con
stantly working to raise the
million dollars to save the
history of the buildings on
the Knoxville Square. Also
they are working to provide
a wonderful place for other
events besides the Georgia
Jug Festival.
These buildings are the
county’s heritage and need
to be saved to promote
Crawford County. These
buildings first served in the
days of horse and carriage.
Old Wire Road, now known
as U.S. Highway 80, was a
dirt road.
Go take a tour by calling
836-3825. Donations are
needed but a tour guide will
be glad to show the displays
and buildings.
Recently some displays
were added to kind of dress
up the rooms. Stop by and
take a look.
Grace joins Angus Assoc.
Madison Grace Still, Roberta,
Georgia, is a new junior member
of the American Angus Associ
ation®, reports Mark McCully,
CEO of the national organization
with headquarters in Saint Jo
seph, MissouriJunior members
of the Association are eligible to
register cattale in the American
Angus Association, partici
pate in programs conducted
by the National Junior Angus
Association and take part in
Association-sponsored shows
and other national and regional
events. The American Angus
Association is the largest beef
breed association in the world,
with more than 25,000 active
adult and junior members. Visit
NJAA.info for more information
about the National Junior Angus
Association. Pictured with Daryl
Baxley.