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Rude drawings in caves
once inhabited by the early Cave-Man and crude writings expressed the
desire of our most ancient ancestors to give to posterity their history.
In the great pyramids of Egypt the Egyptians went even farther, and, in
addition to carving their history in stone, undertook to send down their
royal personages in actual bodily preservation and presence. This
history of Pulaski County is an attempt to recreate on the printed page
and to make live again before our eyes the Indians fishing along the
banks of the Ocmulgee; the earliest American
explorers as they crossed our county in their westward course of
exploration; the early settlers who wrested from the dense wilderness and
the hostile Indian, homes and plantations; the amazing growth in
population and material and cultural development of the past century and a
quarter; and some record of the people of the county as they are today.
Pulaski County is not one of the largest counties of
the State, but it takes just pride in the men and women it has given to
the world. Hawkinsville has furnished Macon and Atlanta, as well as other
cities, such a noticeably large number of "leading citizens" that
outsiders are sometimes said to wonder if there can be any good people
left in the county. As an outsider sojourning here for the past seven
years, I am in position to testify that, instead of giving out all of her
"leading citizens," she kept her best at home. Never have I known a higher
type of citizenry, a kindlier people, or a nobler strain of Native
American stock.
The aid of the Federal Government in the long and arduous task of writing
this history is hereby gratefully acknowledged, together with our thanks
to Mrs. Grace Watson, through whose kindly offices this invaluable
assistance was secured, without which it would have been impossible.
The people of the entire county, and, no doubt, all who
in the years to come have occasion to read these pages, will feel a deep
sense of gratitude to the local chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, which is publishing this history. Probably at no time in the
entire history of the county could there have been found three women so
well qualified as exponents of Pulaski's personality; charm, and culture
as the editor, Mrs. T. H. Bridges, and her associates, Mrs. Leonard
Atkinson and Miss Carolyn Jordan. Together with these qualities is found
an indomitable initiative in the person of Mrs. N. A. Jelks, Regent of the
D. A. R. Chapter, and prime mover in the publication of this history. To
these noble women Pulaski Countians from now until the end of civilized
time will be indebted for the valuable records herein contained.
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