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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PEACHTREE CITY Part 1 of 4 based on the Historical Timeline of Peachtree City by Joel Cowan and other historical information. Note from the Editors:
We have made every effort to write this series as a fact-based historical document. Every effort has been made to fact check all comments and information. We encourage everyone to visit the copyrighted archives of Joel Cowan as well as any other documents that are considered important. In order to write a brief history about Peachtree City, we chose to write our first of four segments based on the very early years. We intentionally have left out the early settlers’ stories and we will complete segment four with Joel passing the baton.
HOW FLOY FARR FACILITATED THE FIRST PURCHASE OF FARM LAND College Park realtors, Earl Denny, and Golden Pickett were searching for land in Fayette County, and met with Floy Farr the manager of the Tyrone Bank seeking farms that might be available. The bank was owned by the Redwine brothers of Fayetteville who owned and operated the Farmers & Merchants Bank in Fayetteville. Floy Farr directed them to “the largest landowner, Mr. Robert H. “Uncle Bob” Huddleston. He was eager to sell and he encouraged others to sell, but no one believed Denny’s story about a new town. Nothing significant happened until Denny went to see Peter Knox Jr. in Thomson GA. Peter Knox, Jr. was known nationally for his leadership in pioneering the building of prefabricated homes – he and his family were owners of large timber lands. Knox had read a popular book about the building of new towns in England after WW II and was intrigued with the idea of doing something like that in Georgia.
Photo left: Peter Knox Jr. on phone. Photo right: PeterGKnox III. Photos courtesy of Pat Knox-Hudson. 12 | PEACHTREE CITY MAGAZINE | FALL 2018 – WINTER 2019 |
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