Rec dept. hosts history-filled tour

Rec dept.

hosts history-filled tour

A van filled

with 14 interested history buffs departed from the Hollingsworth House

recently for the Fayette County Recreation Department's annual historical

bus tour.

The group toured

inside the oldest courthouse building in Georgia, which is now the home

of the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce and the Fayette County Development

Authority. County historian Carolyn Cary met them at the Fayette County

Historical Society where they learned about the Creek Indians and the

early history of the county.

The tour continued

through Heritage Park and the Fayetteville City Cemetery, the Kenwood

community, and on to Tyrone, where the group enjoyed a box lunch and learned

about that town's history. After pausing in Peachtree City to learn about

its history, they stopped at Starr's Mill, hearing about its life since

the 1820s, then visited the May-Peeples-Paillor house before driving through

Brooks and Woolsey