Before it was known as Register, this village in western Bulloch County is said to have been first known as Bengal, in 1855, and at some point, Herschel. I believe Bengal was actually a few miles away, however, as the Bengal post office remained open until 1904, whereas the Herschel post office was only open from 1894-1899. When the Herschel post office closed, it was renamed Register, for its first postmaster, Franklin Pierce Register (1853-1914), who moved to the area in 1894. Originally from White Oak, North Carolina, Register was an entrepreneur. With his nephew, J. L. Johnson, he soon had thriving naval stores and mercantile businesses. Bulloch County was full of virgin pine forests. What wasn’t used for turpentine was cleared for timber, which gave rise to farming and the dominance of agriculture. Saw mills and grist mills boomed. In 1901 a branch of the Central of Georgia Railroad intersected with the local Register & Glennville Railroad, and the town thrived for a time. The Register School opened in 1904 and Register High School in 1917. Before they were built, students took the train to classes in Statesboro.