Milledgeville Businessmen
and Businesses in 1890's
1890 Population 6,000. Mayor - Peter
J. Cline
State Industrial School for Girls
Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural
School established Jan. 19, 1880 |
Milledgeville Brick Works, J. W. McMillan
proprietor |
Milledgeville Oil (cotton seed) & Fertilizer
Company, organized May 1889. Captain W. T. Conn, president
W. S. Brooks, manager. Directors: W. T.
Conn, W. S. Brooks, J. W. McMillan, J. C. Whitaker, D.W. Brown, George
C. Smith, H. D. Allen, C. R. Harper. |
Milledgeville Oil (cotton seed) & Fertilizer
Company, organized May 1889. Captain W. T. Conn, president
W. S. Brooks, manager. Directors: W. T.
Conn, W. S. Brooks, J. W. McMillan, J. C. Whitaker, D.W. Brown, George
C. Smith, H. D. Allen, C. R. Harper. |
Milledgeville Banking Company Organized
October 1884 G. T. Wiedenman, president, B. T. Bethune, cashier
Board of Directors: W. T. Conn, T. O. Powell,
T. L. McComb, Samuel Evans, D. B. Sanford and G. T. Widenman |
Peter Cline - Dry Goods
Milledgeville Hotel - F. P. Mapp, proprietor
W. T. Conn & Co. - wholesale grocers |
John M. Clarke Drug Store - George D. Case
- druggist
T. L. McComb - wholesale and retail dealer.
also president of Ice factory
Joseph Miller - jeweler |
Joseph Staley - stoves, hardware, tinware,
glassware & agricultural implements. Also vice president and director
of dummy line, director in building and loan associations
Adolph Joseph, dry goods, notions, boots,
shoes
J. A. Horne, wholesale commission merchant
- grain and provisions. |
Fred Haug, dealer in shoes, hats, trunks
and leather and repair shop
W. & J. Caraker - furniture dealers
J. F. Wilson - hardware |
A. F. Skinner - dry goods, general merchandise
George Gardner Carriage Factory corner of
N. Wilkinson & W. McIntosh (1895)
F. O'Bear Wagon Shop, W. McInosh (1895 map) |
Samuel Evans CottonWarehouse (1895 map)
(1900 map)
Fox Planing Mill (1895 map)
Jewell & McComb - dealers in fancy and
family grocers |
M. & J. R. Hines - dealers in general
supplies, wagons, buggies, etc.
T. E. White - grocers
Warren Edwards - corner of Wayne and McIntosh,
bottling works, soda water, ginger ale, lemon vanilla |
J. C. Whitaker - store in country 12 miles
from town. Also director in oil mill and electric light company
Captain C. H. Andrews - insurance,
merchandise broker, clerk of the board of trade
Sol Barrett - built the dummy line railway |
Robert Whitfield - attorney, State Senator
Rufus W. Roberts - attorney, chairman of
finance committee, secretary and director of Milledgeville Ice works and
director in electric light company and Baldwin county building and loan
association
Joseph E. Pottle attorney and judge
J. T. Allen, attorney and judge |
Captain J. D. Howard - attorney
Dr. Clark - dentist
Dr. McReynolds - dentist
The Recorder and Chronicle |