Wilkinson.--Population in 1870, 9,383--4,684 white, 4,699 black; 1 1/4 per cent. of area too broken for profitable tillage, 2 1/2 per cent. irreclaimable swamp, 60 per cent. of tillable land cleared, 50 per cent. sandy pine land--rest clay with oak and hickory growth; 571/2 per cent. of laborers black; 42 public free schools for whites, 7 for blacks; Baptists have 20 churches, Methodists 12, Episcopalians 1, Roman Catholics 1; flour and lumber mills are the only manufactures.

Irwinton, the capital town, is 31/2 miles from the Central Railroad, 30 miles from Macon, the market town of the county; has 275 inhabitants--225 white, 50 black; 35 private dwellings, 1 hotel, 1 union church; 1 school with 50 pupils, 1 weekly newspaper, 3 dry goods stores, 6 grocery stores, 4 physicians, 8 lawyers, 2 dentists.
 
 

source: A manual of Georgia for the use of immigrants and capitalists / prepared under the direction of Thomas P. Janes, commissioner of agriculture

author: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture; Janes, Thomas P.
extent: ii, 119 p. ; 21 cm.
publication: Atlanta: [s.n.], 1878