My grandfather Forest Castleberry told me that it was the main street. I have no way to prove this only what he told me. My grandfather passed away in 1986. One time he took me all the way down the street going east. I bet there are not a lot of people that travel all the way down that street. I was amazed at the big beautiful houses that were along the street facing the railroad. He said it had once been the area where the important people of Griffin had lived. Across the railroad tracks was another big white house he said it was used as a hospital during the Civil War.

My grandfather told me that they use to water their horses right in the middle of town. He said there was a spring there that flowed back toward the Griffin Library. I enjoyed hearing him tell me about the first time he saw an automobile. The automobiles use to scare the horses when they would come by. He also told me Griffin use to have a plank road. That is hard to imagine, a road covered with planks.

It has been many years since I have been all the way down the street at the old courthouse and I am sure the houses are no longer as they use to be but once it was a grand area. My grandfather showed me the house where he said the famous Doc Holliday was born. It was a little house on the corner in the area where The Sock Shop is today. Wish I had a picture of it. I must have been about ten or twelve years old at the time.