R.T.B. Parham and the Mardi Gras Tradition
Rutledge Thomas Blasengame Parham resided only briefly in Troup County, but he is a key figure in one of our most enduring legends. We think he arrived here in late summer of 1864, as a patient in [...]
Joe Young’s Pineland
My earliest recollection of anything to do with West Point Lake was sometime in the early 1960s. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was a Sunday afternoon and my grandmother’s neighbors were gathered around her [...]
Hill Street & Three Points
Around the time that downtown LaGrange was cut from the wilderness in 1827, a road was blazed between LaGrange and Greenville. Once a road to Newnan was created, this road intersected the Greenville Road a short distance [...]
A Brief History of West Point, Georgia
West Point, Georgia was originally known as Franklin starting on December 26, 1831. Franklin started as a trading post on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River. It is believed that the town got its name from [...]
Unidentified: UFO’s in Troup County
LaGrange Daily News from July 15, 1997 On a cool spring evening, some college students were wandering around campus when the wind picked up a little. The breeze sent a shiver down their spines and [...]
William Hutchinson Huntley: Confederate Secret Agent
By Randall Allen The proprietors of Brown Brothers’ Machine Shop in New Castle, Pennsylvania, made a gruesome discovery when they opened their office on the morning of December 29, 1894. Their patent attorney, William Huntley, sat slumped [...]
Dorothy Hopkins McClendon, the Cemetery Lady
By Thomas Daniel Knight and Randall Allen Troup High Key Club member, Bruce Batchelor looks on as Dorothy McClendon, dressed in her “cemetery uniform,” clears a grave in the John Hill Cemetery at Long Cane. Key [...]
John Marvin Thompson: Villain and Victim
By Randall Allen The genesis of this article goes back more than forty years. One Sunday afternoon my grandmother and I drove around Oak Grove Community, where she grew up. On Floyd Road (then called Pruitt Mill [...]
I’ll never forget ol’ what’s-his-name!
Anyone with an interest in Troup County’s history has heard about Fuller Callaway, Horace King, Benjamin Harvey Hill and the legend of the Nancy Harts. Every day, we drive by landmarks that are part of the fabric of [...]
A Driver’s Guide to Hill View Cemetery – Swanson Lot
If, like me, you’re a resident of LaGrange, you will regularly find yourself driving down Morgan Street where it becomes New Franklin Road and passing the glorious riot of stone monuments that makes up Hill View Cemetery. [...]
