494 RANDOLPH COUNTY. 



Towns. — Cuthbert is the seat of justice. It has a brick 

 court-house, handsomely arranged ; cost $16,000; a jail, con- 

 structed of wood ; two churches, Methodist and Baptist ; three 

 hotels, two academies, one resident minister, one Masonic 

 Lodge, and one Division of the Sons of Temperance. The 

 streets are regularly laid off, and are shaded with China and 

 mulberry trees. The water, although slightly impregnated 

 with lime, is good. Population 500. This is a thriving town, 

 doing business to the amount of $80,000 per annum. It was 

 made the county site in 1831 ; incorporated in 1834, and nam- 

 ed after the Hon. J. A. Cuthbert, of Mobile. It is 150 miles 

 from Milledgeville, 22 from Lumpkin, and 40 from Americus. 



Georgetown is a small village on the Chattahoochee, N. 

 W. of Cuthbert. It has a warehouse, four stores, one gro- 

 cery, and two blacksmiths. Four thousand bags of cotton are 

 received here in a year. Population 100. 



Roads, Bridges. — The roads are excellent ; the bridges 

 are kept in tolerable repair. 



Mills. — Grist-mills 18, saw-mills 12, merchant mill 1. 

 The streams afford every facility for manufactures, and it is 

 hoped that the citizens will soon turn their attention to this 

 subject. 



Religious Sects, Education. — The Baptists stand first in 

 point of number. There are Methodists, Presbyterians, Epis- 

 copalians, and a few Universalists. 



Education is on the advance. The people are anxious to 

 have good schools. 



Character of the People, Amusements. — The population 

 of this county is highly intelligent. Hunting, fishing, shooting 

 matches, and dancing, are the chief amusements. 



Revolutionary Characters. — Peter Bucholter, 77 ; Eze- 

 kiel Bryan, 75 : John Brown, 77 ; Thomas Davis, 85 ; Ri- 

 chard Darby, 102. 



Climate, Diseases, Longevity. — The climate is mild. 

 There are but few diseases, and it may be called a healthy 

 county. Mr. Love died a few years since at the advanced 

 age of 117. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and was an 

 active man, though bhnd for 30 years before his death. Mrs. 



