UPSON COUNTY. 573 



UPSON. 



Boundaries, Extent. — This county is bounded N. by- 

 Pike ; E. by Monroe and Crawford ; S. by Talbot, and W. by 

 Meriwether and Talbot. Laid out from Crawford and Pike 

 in 1824. It is 24 miles long, and 16 wide, containing 384 

 square miles. 



Post Offices. — Thomaston, Double Bridges, Hootensville, 

 Waymanville. 



Amount of State Tax. — The amount of State tax for 

 1848, was i3,357 13. 



Population, Representation. — According to the last 

 census, Upson had 5,740 whites, and 4,080 blacks ; total, 

 9,828. Entitled to two representatives to the Legislature. 



Rivers and Creeks. — The principal river is the Flint, 

 into which the following creeks empty, viz.; Big Potato, Lit- 

 tle Potato, Tobler's, Swift, and Turkey. 



Towns. — Thomaston, a remarkably neat village, is the 

 seat of justice for the county. It has a handsome brick court- 

 house, jail, one excellent tavern, two churches, Methodist and 

 Baptist, one male and one female academy, each averaging 

 fifty pupils, four stores, one family grocery, three tailors, four 

 blacksmiths, two wheelwrights, one tinner, one cabinet-maker, 

 one tannery, two carpenters, one shoe factory, seven attor- 

 neys, five physicians, three ministers, one Odd Fellows' 

 Lodge, one Masonic Lodge, one Division of the Sons of 

 Temperance, one Bible Society, and two Sabbath schools. 

 The people are intelligent, moral, and hospitable. It is situ- 

 ated upon the waters of Potato creek, on the road leading 

 from Columbus to Macon. From Milledgeville it is 75 miles 

 W. S. W ; 16 from the Macon and Western Railroad, 45 

 from Macon, 27 from Knoxville, and 17 from Zebulon. The 

 Columbus stage passes through Thomaston every day. It 

 was incorporated in 1825. 



Logtown, nine miles S. E, of Thomaston, is distinguished 

 for the number of its mechanics' shop. 



Hootensville, is three miles from Fhnt river, and twelve from 

 Thomaston. 



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