Wesley Matthews writes: This school’s original location was next door to Crossroads Church on George Smith Road. The entire school house was moved by Johnny Matthews in the 1950s to present location on Pobiddy Road where he used it as a warehouse to store fertilizer and lumber . It was built by county school system in the 1920s or 1930s.
This iconic crossroads store was owned by Betty & Maro Callier. In trying to answer where the crossroads got its name, Norman Carter wrote in The Pobiddy Joke Book (1995): Nobody knows exactly how Pobiddy got its name. I remember when my good friends Betty and Maro Callier had a store at Pobiddy and Maro drew a little chicken on the front of the store and underneath wrote “Pobiddy”. Other people say there were some people sitting on the porch of a home in Pobiddy when a little chicken ran across the road and a car hit it and killed it. Someone on the porch said “po biddy!”.
The South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church notes: Collinsworth was organized prior to 1830, by a band of Methodists meeting at the home of George Menifee. The first church was a log cabin called Menifee’s Meeting House. They built the present structure in 1834 and named it for Reverend John Collinsworth, a former pastor. The dedication service, by Reverend Lovick Pierce, wasn’t held until 1859.
Collinsworth is a fine example of a vernacular Greek Revival church, evident in the locally executed Ionic capitals [above]. The builder was Urban Cooper Tigner, owner of a nearby plantation and a self-taught architect/contractor. Tigner also built the Lumsden House.
This is a nice example of this once widespread form.
One resource survey identifies the date of construction of this farmhouse at 1856.
Corinth Methodist Church was organized by Reverend James Stockdale and Josiah Matthews in 1828. The congregation met at varied locations over their first four decades. This vernacular Greek Revival structure was dedicated by Reverend R. J. Corley on 24 October 1869. The congregation consolidated with the nearby Collinsworth Methodist Church in 1965.
I hope to learn more about Woodland. The town was incorporated in 1908 but was settled long before then. It would be nice to see its small but historic commercial core listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This commercial block has most recently been used as the city hall and police precinct.
This was likely a grocery store. The style was among the most common in early-20th-century Georgia.