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
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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. 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 |