Rockmart – Polk County Historical Society

Checking Up on the Joneses

April 5, 2022

| Family History, Rockmart, Virtual Tour

Article by Leonora Ferguson Mintz, 1998 For Seaborn Jones Memorial Week I am checking up on the Joneses, not trying to keep up with them. When I was a child, I heard, and later read, stories of George Washington, Daniel Boone, Ben Franklin, and other national heroes, but I honestly believe, as I think back, […]

Rockmart – A New Bank to be Established

January 4, 2019

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| 1880s, Newspaper Articles, Rockmart

ROCKMART NEWS A New Bank to be Established There–Other Notes Clay Bros. are making some very fine brick on Col. Dever’s property, in Rockmart. They make both rough and pressed brick, and are working away on Beasley & Hoge’s handsome brick store. Mr. W. L. Ferguson has purchased the “Alliance Store” and will do a […]