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All County Roads Will Get A Name
By Maxine Thompson
Sgt. Johnny Moreland and
his staff at Post 15 of the
Georgia State Patrol in
Perry have been given the
task of seeing that every
rural road in their six-county
area has a name.
The roads already have
numbers, which a motorist
may notice on the back of
stop signs. When a State
Patrolman makes an ac
cident report, he must be
able to pinpoint the location
within one one-hundredth of
a mile from a numbered and
named roadway.
The trouble comes from
the fact that so many
country roads don’t have any
name. And In making their
survey and naming roads,
troopers are having to use a
1969 map and are finding
roads that don’t even have
numbers, much less names.
All rural roads in the state
of Georgia must be given
names, or the state will lose
110 million a year in federal
funds. The State Department
of Public Safety was
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the county road numbers attached to the back of a stop sign in Houston County.
Numbers were assigned to the roads by the state; now Patrolmen have the
task of giving names to all of the roads.
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State Patrol Cpl. John W. Wright with one of the mileage signs found on all
major roads in the state. This sign indicates a distance of two miles from the
western boundary of Houston County on Georgia 127. All distances are
measured from west to east and from south to north.
designated to come up with
names.
Based on the 1969 map, the
number of roads in each
county and the number that
already had names some two
months ago included
Houston, 454 roads, 83
named; Bleckley, 695 roads,
87 named; Pulaski, 163
roads, 3 named; Peach, 681
roads, 34 named; Bibb, 319
roads, 59 named; and Macon
County, 264 roads, 16 named.
Hard work has brought the
lists up considerably, Sgt.
Moreland reported. Most of
Houston County’s roads now
have names, and a large
number in Bleckley. Work is
progressing in Pulaski and
Peach, but Bibb and Macon
Counties are still in the
cellar on the road count.
Their roads will be the last to
be named.
How does anyone go about
naming a country road with
no name, especially some
little dirt road away from the
mainstream of traffic?
“The men go to the homes
of people who live on the
road and ask what it is
usually called. Some have
always been called the name
of people who lived on them
for years, maybe the first
settlers there. Others have
names somebody just
started calling them for
some reason or other,” Sgt.
Moreland said.
Cpl. John W Wright, one of
the patrolmen who has been
tracking down names or
giving new names to roads,
said that if no name was used
for a road they usually just
gave it the name of someone
who had lived on it for a long
time. Sometimes a road was
named for a creek or some
other part of nature, or for a
church.
In the process, a few road
names have been changed.
Notable in the Perry area is
the fact that Whistler’s
Bridge Road, long known as
a lover’s lane, exists by that
name no more. Moss Oaks
Road has been extended to
cover the road formerly
called Whistler’s Bridge.
Besides roads named for
people, churches or creeks,
some had odd or unusual
names. There are Short
Street, Street, Gun
smoke Road, Bright Road,
City Dump Road, Sandy Pit
Road, and Dragstrip Road,
Perry Police Stay Busy Here
Four men were arrested
by Macon police trying to
pawn typewriters identified
as having been stolen from
Perry High School, Perry
Police Chief B. E. Dennard
said.
The four, Calloway Little,
Milton Thomas, Milton
Walker and Frank Jackson,
are all on probation from
former charges, Chief
Dennard said. Sgt. Pat
Padgett was in charge of the
Perry end of the in
vestigation.
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Macon County has Sleepy
Hollow Road and Horseshoe
Road; Peach has Rum Road
and Buckeye Road.
Construction Co. on Sears
Road was reported on June
21. Two checks were
reported as missing, one for
$19.20 and the other for
$17.46.
On June 22 Billy Irvin, 1501
E. Tolleson, reported a
stolen bike. It was described
as a girl’s blue and white 26
inch bicycle with no fenders..
On the same date Albert
Ogletree, Phillips 66 Service
Station, reported that SSO in
change kept in a bank bag
was missing..
On June 24 two juveniles
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Bleckley's oddly-named
roads are Fox Squirrel Road,
Dinner Bell Road, Chicken
Road, Mud Pond Road, T V
Station Road, and Bypass
were arrested in connection
with the theft of a car from
the Horace Woodruff car lot.
The automobile was
recovered..
On June 26 the Sing Gas
Station reported a door lock
was broken,their safe found
open and $2,463 was missing
in cash, checks, and credit
cards..
Cpl. Mac McCuan and Ptl.
Kermit Beasley investigated
an accident at Elko Road
and Cathy Street June 25.
Eldora Lester, Rt. 2, P. 0.
Box 16, Perry, was parked
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1972
Road.
With those four counties as
an example, it is expected
that Bibb and Pulaski
Counties will provide
off the road on Elko Road,
records show, in a 1962
Chevrolet, when Lottie Bell
Murray, 920 Jeanne Street
came from Cathy Street in a
1968 Ford, crossed the road
Willis Elected Director At GNHA
Mr. and Mrs. Ed A. Willis
attended the Georgia Nur
sing Home Association’s
Mid-Year Convention at St.
Simon’s Island, Georgia last
week.
Mr Willis, president of
strange-sounding names for
the list when the Patrolmen
get through with their name
game.
and ran into the Lester
vehicle.
Lottie Bell Murray was
charged with being drunk
under the wheel of a
vehicle.
New Perry Nursing Home,
was elected to the Board of
Directors for a two-year
term after having served as
the president of the West-
Central Council of the GNHA
for the past two years.