548 TROUP COUNTY. 



from Greeneville, 30 from Newnan, 22 from Hamilton, 42 from 

 Columbus, and 17 from West Point. The lots were sold on the 

 1st of May, 1828. It has a brick court-house, a jail, a fire-proof 

 clerk's office, three churches, two hotels, ten or twelve stores, 

 physicians, lawyers, mechanics' shops, &c. Business to the 

 amount of $175,000 per annum is done in this town. Popula- 

 tion about 1,500. The schools of La Grange for many years 

 ha^e been the theme of admiration. The school buildings are 

 capacious and neat, provided with libraries and philosophical 

 apparatus. Lectures are regularly delivered, and the principles 

 of science illustrated by experiments. The grounds connected 

 with the institutions are ornamented with trees, and every 

 method is adopted to render school pleasant to the pupil. The 

 town is healthy, and the water excellent. No place in Georgia 

 can boast of a population, from its foundation to the present 

 time, possessing greater merits in point of refinement of man- 

 ners, benevolence of feeling, general intelligence, and moral 

 worth, than La Grange Incorporated in 1828. The country 

 in the immediate vicinity of La Grange is highly improved, 

 presenting numerous beautiful mansions surrounded by grounds 

 ornamented with flowers and trees. 



Mountville, nine miles from La Grange, on the road to 

 Greeneville, contains one church, two doctors, and several 

 mechanics' shops. Population about 200. 



Harrisonville, ten miles from La Grange, contains a church, 

 store, grocery, &c. Population about 60. 



West Point, on both sides of the Chattahoochee, 16 miles 

 from La Grange, has two churches, four or five stores, &c. 

 Population, 200. 



Long Cane is nine miles west of La Grange. 



Vernon, on the Chattahoochee, is six miles from La Grange. 



Education. — In no part of Georgia are the means of 

 education so extensively diffiised. From the earliest settle- 

 ment of the county, the subject of education has occupied the 

 attention- of the citizens. Schools are established in nearly 

 every neighbourhood. Many of the seminaries of learning 

 would do credit to any community. Some of the gentlemen 

 having charge of the education of youth in La Grange, have 

 favoured us with the following statistics . 



