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Donalsonville, Georgia
Donalsonville is a busy little town located in the
western part of Decatur county with a population
of about twelve hundred people with their own mu
nicipally owned water works and light plant, ice and
cold storage plants. Has two banks with a combined
capital and surplus of more than $175,000.00 and com
bined resources of around half a million dollars; cotton
seed oil mills, peanut oil mills, fertilizer factory, mod
ern hotel, a number of mercantile houses and many
other business interests.
SCHOOL FACILITIES UNSURPASSED.
Donalsonville has a modern brick high school build
ing with eleven rooms and large auditorium. The
course of study runs through the twelfth grade.
Here is also located the Shingler University, a modern
college building equipped to do thorough college work.
A DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY.
Donalsonville is located near the center of what is
conceded to be the best diversified farming section in
Southwest Georgia; the land being gently rolling with
a gray pebbly soil; is well adapted to the growing of
many kinds of crops. The farmers are now diversify
ing their crops, and where a few years ago cotton was almost the sole money crop,
now (fall of 1916), the money received from the sale of peanuts, hogs, cattle, corn,
velvet beans, etc., is almost equal to that received from the cotton crop. Car load
after car load of hogs have been shipped to various packing houses in Moultrie,
Waycross, Atlanta and Jacksonville, Pla., and corn, peanuts and other crops find
a ready cash market.
Here are located two of the finest herds of Hereford cattle to be found in the South,
belonging to the Pecan Stock Farm and the Chattahoochee Lumber Company respectively, their
show herds taking many prizes at the recent fairs held in Maeon, Atlanta, "Valdosta, Montgomery,
and other places. Hardly any section of the State is paying as much attention to the raising
of live stock as this community, and with the county now installing dipping vats, it might be
said that the raising of live stock in the community is only in its infancy, yet carload after
carload of beef cattle are being shipped from Donalsonville this fall.
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FAIR.
Here is located the Southwest Georgia Fair Association, which holds an annual fair at
Donalsonville, and the event promotes a friendly rivalry and good fellowship among all the
people in the community. The live stock and agricultural exhibits at these fairs each year,
equal that shown at any fair in the State, as to quality and breeding.
FARMING LANDS.
Good farm lands can be bought in this section at reasonable prices, ranging from twenty
dollars per acre for farms within seven miles of Donalsonville to forty dollars per acre for lands
partly clear of stumps within two miles of town. Good farming lands can be bought as low
as ten dollars per acre within ten miles of this town.
For further information, relative to Donalsonville, and this community, write to
Chamber of Commerce, Donalsonville, Ga.
"Come Hoe with us, you will be pleased with results."
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