PARRAMORE
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NAME: Parramore COUNTY: Jackson ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Fine anytime BEST TIME TO VISIT: Accessable in all seasons |
COMMENTS:
Resident rural population. Ten miles North of Three Rivers Park. 15 miles North of Sneads. REMAINS: Old School House on the Cox Farm, Crumbled Turpentine Still Ruins, Graveyard at the Circle Baptist Church, Lawson Home and Barn, Remains of the Sugar Furnace on the Old Cox Farm |
| Parramore was developed as a riverboat landing on the Chattahoochee River, in 1870, by the founder of the same name. It was originally called Parramore's Landing. By 1875 the community started to grow with three riverboat landings, Watt's Turpentine Still, Several Old Stores, Oak Grove Church, One-Room Schoolhouse, several farms like the Cotton and Sugarcane operation of the Cox's and the Lawson Farm, Post Office, and a Grist Mill. Old Stories tell of the large dances held on the wooden dance floor of the Lawson Farm. The town, reaching it's peak in 1905, was basically centered around the Oak Grove Church. Today most of the early pioneers were laid to rest there. Apparantely the land was overfarmed by cotton and when the riverboat traffic was no longer needed the town died off. The last of the old stores were torn down in the 1970's. Pioneer names include Cloud, Lawson, Cox, Hewett, and Neal. Submitted by: Mike Woodfin |
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