Hogansville, Troup County Georgia History
The city of Hogansville lies on the line between the
Eleventh and Twelfth Land districts. The Calumet Mills and the mill village
is in land lot No. 96, the churches and residence section in No. 97, and the
southeastern part of the city in No. 128 of the Eleventh District; the
central southern part in No. 9, the business section in No. 10, and the High
School and Stark Mills in No. 11 of the Twelfth District; the western side
of the city in Nos. 22, 23 and 24 of the Twelfth. The location is that of
the intersection of the commercial highway towards Augusta before the coming
of railroads and the old Indian trail which connected the McIntosh Reserve
with the Creek towns on the lower reaches of the Chattahoochee and the Flint
rivers. At an early date a large part of the site of the city was the
property of William Hogan, for whom the town was named.
The early history of Hogansville is a record of a community gathered around
the churches and school and the mill of Daniel Norwood on Yellow Jacket
Creek near the present station of Trimble. Among the names secured from old
deeds and records are found the following pioneers: Uriah Askew, Joseph N.
Boyd, John Brooks, Zadoc J. Daniel, Silas N. Davis, Hartsfield Hendon,
William Hogan, William Hopson, Martin Jenkins, Mordecai Johnson, John A.
Jones, James M. McFarlin, William Mobley, Alfred P. Norwood, Daniel Norwood,
William D. Phillips, Samuel S. Reid, John W. Scoggins, John Sims, John
Trimble, Henry Wideman, and many others whose names were overlooked or not
found in the records.
The incorporation of the town was deferred until long after the community
was a recognized business center, and was dated October 12, 1870, when James
M. Hurst, Joel J. Loftin, W. H. C. Pace, John T. Pullin, Warren Bacchus, and
Benjamin W. Morton were appointed commissioners and a body corporate under
the name and style of Town Council of the town of Hogansville. The corporate
limits at that time were circular with a radius of three-fourths of a mile
with the railroad depot as a center; however, the radius was reduced to a
half mile on February 28, 1876; and on December 17, 1901, the present
rectangular limits were established. The intersection of the center line of
the street and the main line of railroad track is the point from which
measurements are made. The distance toward the east, south and west is
three-fourths of a mile, towards the north seventenths of a mile; the sides
of the rectangle are due east and west, and north and south.
At the time this community was settled, the whole country was in forest, and
Andrew Pickens Norwood used to relate that the only clearing was that of a
corn patch located about a mile northeast on the west side of the present
highway on land now owned by Warner Smith, which was the site of an Indian
village.
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