468 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



mon's, Messrs. Hurt's/, Flournoy's,- Woolfolk's,^ Mitch- 

 ell's, and others' of our friends and subscribers. 



Mr. Charles A. Peabody,* one of the editors of "The 

 Soil of the South," the most successful strawberry cul- 

 turist in the world, lives on the Alabama side about five 

 miles from town. Several very large cotton and other 

 mills, occupy a small portion of the immense water power 

 of this place. 



Columbus is 350 miles above Apalachicola, its natural 

 seaport, and 200 above Chattahoochee, a passage of two 

 days and one night. Fare, on a good boat, $7. 



March 6th. — To Barnesville, 70 miles — $7 by stage — 

 roads such as every traveller remembers with the same 

 feelings the boy did the whipping, awful while it lasted 

 — very glad its over with. Here I took good cars to At- 

 lanta, 62 miles, upon one of the excellent railroads which 

 abound in Georgia. 



Atlanta is a sort of Jonah's-gourd city, which has 

 grown up entirely within five years. It is at the northern 

 terminus of the Central Railroad from Macon, 101 miles, 

 the western terminus of the Georgia Railroad, from 

 Augusta, 168 miles, the southern terminus of the State 

 Railroad, from Chattanooga 138 miles, and the eastern 

 terminus of a new road not yet quite completed to West 

 Point to join the Alabama road. It is already a place of 

 note, but will be more so, for it holds a few men of the 

 right sort to make any new town go ahead rapidly. One 



* Henry Hurt, a planter and slaveowner, moved to Russell County, 

 Alabama, in 1825, He had eight children, the eldest of whom was 

 Joel Hurt. Reed, Wallace P. (ed.), History of Atlanta, Georgia, 

 155 (Syracuse, N. Y., 1889). 



' Thomas R. Flournoy, Columbus, Georgia, private in the Georgia 

 Regiment of Volunteers which went to Mexico. Member of Georgia 

 Light Infantry, Columbus. White, George, Historical Collections 

 of Georgia, 115 (3d ed., New York, 1855). 



' Colonel John Woolfolk. 



* Charles A. Peabody was a member of the Executive Committee 

 of the Southern Central Agricultural Association. The Plough, 

 the Loom, and the Anvil, 6:657 (May, 1854). Contributor to the 

 American Agriculturist, 1851. See post, 497-98. 



