I wish I had a five-dollar bill for every time I ventured up Highway 29 — Roosevelt Highway — from Red Oak to downtown College Park. I’d have a tidy sum to invest. From the age of four until I was around twenty years old, I made that trip often — sometimes two or three times a day whether I was … [Read more...]
A Lone Grave on Rocky Face: The Story of George Disney and the Orphan Brigade
High atop the craggy spine of Rocky Face Ridge in Whitfield County, Georgia, lies a single grave. The marble marker is simple, but the story behind it is anything but ordinary. Buried here is Private George Disney, a young English-born Kentuckian of the Confederate Orphan Brigade, who died in … [Read more...]
The Great Camel Experiment: Major Henry C. Wayne and America’s Strangest Military Corps
In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army faced a problem: how to move people and supplies across the newly acquired, sunbaked deserts of the American Southwest. While there were a few short rail lines across areas of Texas as early as the 1850s, there were no railroads that extended into Arizona and … [Read more...]
A Namesake in Question
In the winter of 1853, as Georgia lawmakers assembled in Milledgeville, a bill was introduced that would create a new county from a portion of sprawling DeKalb County. On December 7, on the bill’s second reading and during deliberations in the state Senate, Senator John Collier of DeKalb amended the … [Read more...]
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