Draketown, Georgia
Draketown is an unincorporated community in Haralson County, Georgia, United States.
Around the 15th or 16th century, the indigenous Cherokee and Muscogee peoples replaced the Mound Builders and began their own society.
[1] The men from Ducktown, Tennessee named the area Draketown because a drake is a male duck.
[6] The Tallapoosa (Waldrop) copper mine[7][8][9] was settled by pioneers before Haralson County was established, from as early as 1857.
[4] "Copper excitement" started when Elijah Brooks was plowing on the western area of Long Leaf.
As he was plowing, he discovered some bright yellow granular material that burned when set on fire, suggestive of copper.
Work began on the copper mine and by 1874, a 48-foot vertical shaft was sunk by the Tennessee group.
[4] Shortly after the shaft was in place, the rights to the mine were acquired by the Middle Georgia Mineral Association of Macon.
Between 1880 and 1885, the property's mineral rights were held by William Tudor of Boston and Frederick L. Hart of Quebec, Canada.
[4] The Tallapoosa Mining Company built a 235-foot incline to the bottom of the 48-foot shaft previously installed.
Due to difficulties shipping the ore, the Tallapoosa (Waldrop) mine eventually came to a close.
A majority of the inhabitants of the county are probably descendants of these men: John Jackson Kirk, Captain W.J.
He attended Emory University and focused his entire practice in the Draketown Community serving Paulding, Carroll, Polk, and Haralson County residents.
In 1888, he took graduate classes in surgery at the London School of Medicine[15] Golden served several terms in both the Georgia House of Representatives and the State Senate.
He attended Villa Rica school, then later Atlanta Medical College (now Emory University), graduating in 1907.
[1][15] There was a cotton gin and a gristmill run by Calvin Cissero "Cal" Bishop, a blacksmith shop run by William Morris (later by William Taylor "Dub" Eaves), and a hotel built by Will Abercombie.
[1][14] The hotel, built by Will Abercrombie, served as housing for the teachers of the Draketown Baptist Institute.
[1][14] On November 13, 1924, Alice Stewart, the wife of the raiding parson, was shot twice by rum runners, once in the arm and once in the back.
Stewart identified most of her attackers before death; in total ten men were arrested, but only five went to trial.
[20] On May 31, 1925, around 5,000 citizens of Haralson County came to the site where Mrs. Stewart was shot to see the unveiling of a 15-foot tall, white marble monument erected by the Ku Klux Klan.
His most famous song, Where We'll Never Grow Old, was written after visiting his parents in Draketown Missionary Baptist Church.
Some of his many famous songs still sung today were entitled: Row Us Over The Tide, Won't It Be Wonderful There, .
Around 1955, Haralson County board of education, led by M. M. Sanders, determined that new buildings needed to be contracted and consolidated.
By August 1956, Draketown Elementary School was built with seven instructional classrooms at a cost of approximately $98,475.
