The Georgia Department of Transportation is creating an atlas of the old Dixie Highway – better known around these parts as Highway 41 – and has chosen the stretch between Barnesville and Forsyth as its pilot project.
Historians from New South Associates were in town recently to collect oral histories of the highway, built roughly along the trail of an old stagecoach route. While attendance was sparse, the memories were not.
Old Dixie Highway subject of DOT project
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H B
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02/10/10 at 05:51 PM
We knew that as the Police Booth, when I was growing up here in Barnesville. The Police Car, the only one the city had, was usually parked by the Police Booth. Great Memory
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Anonymous
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02/11/10 at 08:25 AM
I remember having to sit in that booth when I was about 8 or 9 years old waiting on my parents to pick me up after Chief Tubby brought me and some friends there for setting the old dry cleaner building on Greenwood Street, where the paper office is now, on fire with some flares we found on the railroad. The fire my folks lit in my britches was a lot hotter than the one we set in that building, I can tell you that.
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small town girl
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02/11/10 at 12:08 PM
so glad I grew up here and can well remember that little "police station" . I walked past it every morning on my way to Gordon Grammar School..
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Anonymous
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02/18/10 at 08:57 PM
What great memories of a Barnesville landmark! I was happy to see a picture posted of the police booth as I remember it being. Thanks.
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