Hugh T. Harrington

Table of Contents

• Dr. John Ruggles Cotting: More Than Just a "Former State of Georgia Geologist"
• Buffalo Soldiers in Memory Hill Cemetery
• The Strange Imprisonment of Thomas Fair
• Tomlinson Fort and Milledgeville's Smallpox Epidemic of 1835
• Wilkinson-A Street Named for a Scoundrel
• The Convicted Murderer and the Georgia Legislature
• The Sculpture by Robert E. Launitz
• Ty Cobb in Milledgeville
• The Great Earthquake of 1886
• President McKinley's Visit to Milledgeville
• The History of Parson Weems
• A Tornado Almost Destroys Milledgeville in 1875
• Abner Hammond-The Man with Two Graves
• "The Stars Are Falling!"-Milledgeville Witnesses the Great Meteor Shower of 1833
• Abner Hammond's Fight with Governor John Clark
• Chatham Street
• Thomas Petters Carnes-Revolutionary War Soldier
• Georgia Normal and Industrial College's Forgotten Tragedy
• Two Memory Hill Mysteries
• Cannons Can Be Dangerous
• "I Have Seen the Giraffe!"
• Lincoln Street Montgomery Street
• Stories behind the Zinc Tombstone of John Sherrod Thomas
• Medieval Knights Vie for Love and Beauty in Milledgeville
• The Old Capitol Base Ball Club of 1871
• Milledgeville's First Velocipede
• Milledgeville's First Museum
• Cause of Death: Teething!
• The Spectacular Sunsets of 1883
• Animals on the Streets
• Echoes of Lafayette's Visit to Milledgeville
• Jett Thomas' Unique Dying Proposition
• Mad Dog!
• The Dramatic End to the Life of Henry Byrom, Gambler
• Old Jim
• The Presidential Candidate from Milledgeville
• Hillsborough-Baldwin County's First Courthouse
• The Great Rooster Rip-Off of 1903
• The Ladies Artillery Company of Jefferson Street
• Joanna Troutman and the Flag of Texas
• The Battle of the Baldwin-Putnam Bridge
• Benjamin Talbert-Revolutionary Soldier
• Dr. B.J. Simmons
• The Murder of Lemuel Smith
• The Murder of Lewis H. Kenan
• General Anthony Wayne Reminds Us That History is Not Boring
• General Nathanael Greene's Hat
• Flying Over Milledgeville, 1877 Style
• The Gwinnett-McIntosh Duel
• The Voodoo Murders
• Get Your Head Examined
• Old Milledgeville
• Lamar Myth Replaced with Fact
• A Cure for the Common Scold
• Milledgeville Reading Room
• Salubrious Milledgeville . . . Or Is It?
• The Killing of Deputy Marshal Charles Haygood
• Dixie Haygood and the Magic of Her Annie Abbott Act
• The Expulsion of Henry E. Kreutz
• Major General Joseph Warren's Teeth
• A Case of Bigamy
• The Mysterious Duel of James Spalding
• The Harris-Sanford Murder
• The State House Fire of 1833
• Husband Illegally Puts His Wife in Asylum
• Treating a Scalped Head
• Never Pull an Arrow Out of a Body
• George Washington's First Crisis As Commanding General
• Index