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Creation Date
8-28-2011
Description
Center Village Marker, Nahunta, GA.
The Center Village or Centerville historical marker is located on US 23/US 301 at the junction with GA 252 in Folkston, Georgia.
It reads as :
" Two miles Northeast of here is the site of old Center Village, or Centerville, settled about 1800 and for many years an important trading center. To this village came the inhabitants of Ware, Pierce, Clinch, Coffee and Appling counties, bringing staple cotton, beeswax, honey, jerked venison, hides, furs, etc. to exchange for flour, sugar, coffee, shot, powder and other commodities they did not produce. Here, too, disputes were settled and sports enjoyed.
A regular stop for stage coaches traveling the Kings Road, old Center Village went out of existence after the coming of the railroad."
Latitude, Longitude
30.83273333, -82.00636111
Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Keywords
Taylor, George Lansing, Jr.; Lance Taylor; Photographers -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Photograph collections -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Center Village Marker; Old Center Village; Trading Center; Historical marker; Charlton County (Ga.); Centerville (Ga.); Historical markers --- Georgia --- Centerville.; Images