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Perry Area Was Once Busy Criss-Cross For
Many Georgia Indian Tribes In Early 1800 s
The Perry area was criss
crossed with Indian trails
when the first white settlers
came and for many years
afterwards.
The Southwest section of
Houston County has several
mounds and a cave that were
used by the Indians.
Leading from Cow-e-tah
Tallahassee, later known as
Coweta Town in Muscogee
County, was once an im
portant trail called “Indian
Path". It branched at old An
put-tan-e Creek near
Columbus. One branch of this
trail ran in a northeasterly
direction to Wafford in
County.
Rhodes To Join
Gray-Walker Co.
Cohen Walker, president of
Gray-Walker Tractor Co. of
Ferry, announced today that
H. Foster Rhodes will become
associated with him in the
tractor company here on July
I.
The Gray-Walker Co., which
sells farm implements and
tractors, has been in business
since 1947. Prior to Walker
becoming a partner at that
time, it was owned and
operated by the late Charles
R Gray, who founded the
business in 1937.
Foster Rhodes is a former
Houston assistant county
agent, an area extension
animal scientist and is
presently an extension animal
scientist.
He is a graduate of Evans
High and is a native of
Augusta, Ga. He received a
B.S. degree in animal science
from (he University of
Georgia in 1967 and a Master’s
degree in animal breeding
from Georgia in 1969.
While at the University of
Georgia he was a member of
Sphinx, Blue Key, Omicron
Delta Kappa, Aghon Honorary
K’Jjcty, Pyramid, Block and
Bridle Club, X-Club, Alpha
Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta,
Independent Men and
Perry Draft Board
Moves To Armory
The Selective Service System Local Board has
moved to the National Guard Armory, 1121 Macon
Street, in Perry. Office hours are from 8:30 to
5:00, Monday through Friday.
The law requires young men reaching their 18th
birthday to register.
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Another branch ran through
the lands now known as Harris
and Talbot Counties, crossing
the Flint River at the in
tersection of Crawford,
Taylor, and Macon Counties,
passing through Houston and
Fort Valley, leading out to the
old Indian Agency on the Flint
in Crawford County, thence to
; Fort Hawkins and Cross Keys
in Bibb County, thence
through Jones County, ending
at Milledgeville.
Where the town of Mon
i tezuma now is was an old
trading post, and was a
i popular Indian gathering
place from 1798 to 1814. It was
University of Georgia
Livestock Judging Team. He
was selected to Who’s Who in
American colleges and
universities and was selected
the College of Agriculture’s
outstanding junior and senior
in the animal science dept.
While working in Houston
County in 1970, he received the
“outstanding contribution to
youth award”.
He and his family are
members of the United
Methodist Church. He is
married to the former Ann
Mathis of Ocilla, Ga., and they
have two daughters, Marcy 3,
and Melinda 5 months.
Foster Rhodes
known as the Timpoochee
Barnard settlement. The
old Barnard Path passed
through Ft. Valley.
Famed Spring
The highway now used
between Hawkinsville and
Grovania in Houston County
was an original Indian trail
from the Ocmulgee to the
Thronateeska. This was a
very popular trail used by the
Indians on their hunting trips
from river to river.
There was a spring on the
Hawkinsville trail famed by
the Indians for its medicinal
properties. The Indians in
large companies would camp
near it. Long after they had
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Florida Everglades, the sick
and diseased among them
would return to this spring to
be cured.
On the farm of Mrs. Becky
Till, one of the first settlers,
was a hill from which the
Indians secured clay for
making pipes.
On the farm of William
Davis, father of Manning
Davis, one of Houston's oldest
citizens, was a cave and un
derground passage, with an
outlet near Montezuma. The
Indians used this cave. On the
same place can be found In
dian mounds.
There were many trading
posts in Houston and adjoining
counties and the trails were
traveled extensively. Our
splendid highways today
mark the pathways of these
rude trails.
Prior to 1821, Indian tribes
roved at will through the
wilderness, holding their pow
wows at Ross Hill, a
Revolutionary fort just two
miles from Perry, and even
after the earliest emigrants
came to this section it is
authentically related that the
Indians were driven from
their doors.
They held their counsels or
court on Ross Hill, but slept
over near Norwood Spring,
which was called by the early
inhabitants, Indian Spring.
The Indians said that Flat
Creek was sickly. There is
now an old log crossing Big
Indian Creek, which was used
by the Indians. They carried
the water from Norwood
Spring with them in skins, on
their hunts.
There is an old cave a few
miles from the Spring where
they took refuge in case it
rained.
While William Clark was
Governor, trouble began with
the Federal Government,
regarding the removal of the
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., JUNE 13, 1974,
Indians. The United States
recognized the Indian tribes
as owners of the lands on
which they lived, and so the
lands were never taken from
them by force but were always
bought. When the Indians sold
land their title was said to be
extinguished.”
The United States made a
treaty with the Creeks at
Indian Spring in January,
1921. By this treaty a tract of
land was ceded or sold by the
Indians, and it was agreed
that the United States might
apply S2SO,(MX) of the purchase
money to compensating
citizens of Georgia for cattle
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and other property taken from
them by the Indians.
Most of Middle Georgia
The territory gained in
cluded the remaining land
between the Flint and Oc
mulgee Rivers as far North as
the Chattahoochee.
It was divided by the
Legislature in 1821 into the
counties of Houston, Dooly,
Fayette, Henry and Monroe.
Governor Clark advised the
Legislature to distribute this
land by the lottery system,
which was more likely to “do
equal justice to the poor and
rich and insure a speedy
population of the country.”