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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 :: Popularity: 76% [?]
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Hannah Marney
The Union-Recorder
More than 300 people showed up for the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Military College Alumni Association’s 12th annual Will Robinson Memorial Run on Saturday at the North Baldwin Fire Department, braving the 40-something degree weather for a good cause.
“We had a great turnout and the weather was great though a bit chilly,” Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department Chief of Detectives Capt. Christopher Spires said.
Suzanne Ratliff with the GMC Alumni Association was happy with the cool weather and the support of the community and GMC students.
“Cold is better than rain. We were happy with the results, and it was a good turnout,” Ratliff said.
Some excellent times were posted for the 5K or 3.2 miles run, Spires said.
Baldwin High standout Franco Delaluz made it back-to-back wins at the Memorial this year, finishing the 5K in 16 minutes and 36 seconds, Spires said.
“That is a very fast run,” Spires said.
Katherine Lacksen was the female winner with a time of 27 minutes and 47 seconds.
Spires estimates about $11,000 was raised, though that was before paying the costs of the event.
The money raised will go toward two scholarships to Georgia Military College, one being in the name of Will Robinson and the other as a GMC Alumni Association scholarship. The remaining funds will go toward the D.A.R.E. program, Spires said.
T-shirts for the event are still available. Contact Spires at (478) 445-7108 for more information.
Winners in the other categories who received trophies:
— One mile “fun” run male winner — George Bowels
— One mile “fun” run female winner — Cherokee Henry
— Overall public safety winner — McKay Bloodworth with Georgia State Patrol with 23 minutes and eight seconds in the 5K run
— Overall male Baldwin County winner — Fred Eaton with 18 minutes and 13 seconds in the 5K run
— Overall female Baldwin County winner — Lindsay White with 24 minutes and 38 seconds in the 5K run
Winners in each age group were also recognized.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 :: Popularity: 100% [?]
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November 17th, 2007
POF Name City Age Time
1 Franco Delaluz Milledgeville 17 16:36
2 Robert Bradham Macon 16 17:59
3 Fred Eaton Milledgeville 40 18:13
4 Clark Walker Hardwick 49 18:18
5 Jerry Herrin Milledgeville 46 18:29
6 Adrian Puebla (m) Milledgeville 15 18:37
7 Jason Hendrix Peachtree City 21 18:56
8 John Downey Milledgeville 26 19:55
9 Christian Hernandez Milledgeville 15 20:01
10 Katherine Lacksen Sparta 16 20:47
11 Larry Lacksen Sparta 13 21:08
12 James Bradham Macon 14 21:23
13 Shane Bloodworth Milledgeville 15 21:24
14 Jeff Lacksen Sparta 46 21:25
15 Will Lacksen Sparta 11 21:30
16 Rod Dudley Toomsboro 18 21:42
17 Brittley Blount Macon 17 21:57
18 Elizabeth Lacksen Sparta 15 22:09
19 Jerome Douglas Gray 49 22:09
20 Jason Maddox Milledgeville 27 22:14
21 Bennie Cullens Sandersville 60 22:23
22 Jaris Landham (f) 37 22:38
23 Alfred L Willis Rheem 49 22:40
24 MacKay Bloodworth (m) Milledgeville 33 23:08
25 Savannah Walker Macon 13 23:10
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 :: Popularity: 84% [?]
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School Spirit Award- GMC High School
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| One Mile | Dwain Swanson |
8:56
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Rebecca Eaton |
10:07
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| 5K Overall | Franco DeLaLuz |
16:56
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Katherine Lacksen |
20:50
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| 5K Baldwin County | Fred Eaton |
17:42
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Angie Childre |
21:55
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| 5K Public Safety | Tony Holland |
36:47
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| 10 & Under | 1st place | Will Lacksen |
22:51
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Macy Watkins |
32:06
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| 2nd place | Josh Brown |
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Macie Ford | |||
| 3rd place | Thomas Resha |
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Ainsley Brookins | |||
| 11-14 | 1st place | Adrian Scott Puebla |
19:21
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Elizabeth Lacksen |
22:35
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| 2nd place | Larry Lacksen |
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Alexis Holsey | |||
| 3rd place | Jeremy Straughon |
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Lindee Lord | |||
| 15-19 | 1st place | Rod Dudley |
21:48
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Jennifer Thompson |
26:19
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| 2nd place | Travis Gilliland |
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Page Jackson | |||
| 3rd place | Clifton Wingfield |
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Erin McDade | |||
| 20-24 | 1st place | Jonny Digby |
18:47
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Claire Paletz |
35:18
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| 2nd place | Chris Speight |
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Jacinta Warren | |||
| 25-29 | 1st place | Matt Gentry |
21:51
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Hope Mullis |
26:57
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| 2nd place | Marcus Lillard |
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Amy Whatley | |||
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Tricia Archer | ||||
| 30-34 | 1st place | Donny Wallach |
19:23
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Carla Dabbs |
24:44
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| 2nd place | Ron McGowan |
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Lana Swanson | |||
| 3rd place | Marty Phillips |
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Jennifer Aldridge | |||
| 35-39 | 1st place | Jason Childre |
20:11
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Helene Eaton |
26:10
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| 2nd place | Harry Thompson |
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Nicki Sibilsky | |||
| 3rd place | Trey Britt |
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Sandra Prosperi | |||
| 40-44 | 1st place | Darrin Jacoby |
18:23
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Robyn Simpson |
32:05
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| 2nd place | Keith Griffin |
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Karen Jarrell | |||
| 3rd place | Ed Waddell |
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Andrea Hyatt | |||
| 45-49 | 1st place | Clark Walker |
17:51
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Stacie Goggens |
26:11
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| 2nd place | Jerry Herrin |
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Barbara Ezell | |||
| 3rd place | Jerry Worley |
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Young Bark | |||
| 50-54 | 1st place | Ronnie Kittrell |
22:25
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Mary Lacksen |
22:09
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| 2nd place | Ron McClung |
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Susan Pennington | |||
| 3rd place | Tommy Hillman |
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Gail Thomason | |||
| 55-59 | 1st place | Ronnie Owens |
37:48
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| 60 & up | 1st place | Frank Eady |
22:57
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Wanda Aldridge |
32:24
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| 2nd place | Robert Culberson |
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Anne Sanchez Culberson | |||
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Pat Moss | ||||
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005 :: Popularity: 11% [?]
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Seems like just yesterday. Hard to believe it has been 10 years.Miss ya Bro’
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Saturday, January 1st, 2005 :: Popularity: 11% [?]
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Today would have been Will’s 36th Birthday. Hard to believe it has been over 9 years. We miss you bro!
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 :: Popularity: 14% [?]
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On a recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery, the 8th grade class of Georgia Military College (Class of 2008) presented the Old Guard, number 65 in honor of our fallen comrade. Presenting the jersey to the Sargent of the Guard were MAJ Scott Seagraves (GMC c/o 1980) and C/LTC Zach Seagraves (c/o 2008).
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Monday, May 19th, 2003 :: Popularity: 18% [?]
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By Payton Towns III – The Union-Recorder
With a deputy playing bagpipes and a light rain falling, wreaths were laid on the graves of two Baldwin County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
As part of Police Memorial Day, law enforcement officers and members of the community met Thursday morning at Memory Hill Cemetery to remember William Robinson IV, a Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy killed Dec. 17, 1995, and Charles N. Haygood, a deputy marshal killed Feb. 27, 1886.
“I’ve buried a lot of my friends and this is special for a small community like this,” said Sheriff Bill Massee, who pointed out that Robinson’s parents, Marcia and Ed Robinson, were in attendance.
“Over the last few years, I’ve really watched us try to support this family,” he said. “We’ve had good community support and we’ve had a real good feeling toward law enforcement in Milledgeville and Baldwin County. I thank everybody for coming today. For the people here that do carry a badge and a gun, I pray for your safety, for your family and for your safety. … I’m very pleased with the turnout, especially the number of officers who came out to support their profession and comrades killed in the line of duty.”
MPD Chief Woodrow Blue Jr. said May 15 is an important day to remember those officers who have been killed in the line of duty.
“This a day that has been set aside for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice,” he said. “To reflect on some of the things that I wanted to say today, I thought about the reason I wanted to be an officer, which is the sense of honor and duty and also pride in my community where I could give something back.
“I believed that if we were to ask the two we are honoring today… they would be able to tell you that they had a sense of duty and they wanted to give back to the community in which they lived.” he added. “To sum it up, I’d like to quote from the Bible: ‘No greater love than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends.’”
The MPD Honor Guard and Miller Brown of the BCSO marched to Robinson’s and Haygood’s grave as people followed. While a member of the Honor Guard put the wreath in front of the graves, Brown played “Amazing Grace” on his bagpipes.
The ceremony ended with the Honor Guard doing a 21-gun salute, followed by “Taps” played by MPD Explorer Lt. Paul Bernichon.
Ed Robinson said the ceremony was nice for his family.
“It was beautiful,” he said. “This is really special because William’s friends and co-workers haven’t forgotten him and have kept his memory alive. That touches us the most.”
Mark Bell III, MPD chief of detectives, said he was pleased with the ceremony.
“It was wonderful,” he said. “Det. John Davis and the whole Honor Guard did a wonderful job.”
Bell, along with other representatives of the MPD, returned late Wednesday from the ceremony held Tuesday at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. They represented the department as Haygood’s name was read along with 377 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Haygood was one of 10 from Georgia recognized.
“It was very moving,” Bell said. “I’m very pleased we did that.”
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a law that named May 15 of every year as Peace Officers’ Memorial Day.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2003 :: Popularity: 18% [?]
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By Payton Towns III – The Union-Recorder
Law enforcement agencies in Milledgeville and Baldwin County will remember two men Thursday who died in the line of duty serving their community.
The public is invited to attend a ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Memory Hill Cemetery remembering William Robinson IV, a Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy, and Charles N. Haygood, a deputy marshal killed in the line of duty Feb. 27, 1886.
Chief Woodrow Blue Jr. of the Milledgeville Police Department will speak about Haygood while Sheriff Bill Massee will talk about Robinson. The MPD honor guard will do a 21-gun salute and place wreaths on their graves. “Amazing Grace” will be played on bagpipes when the wreaths are laid, said Mark Bell III, chief of detectives.
“I don’t see it being more than 30 minutes,” he said.
The first annual law enforcement memorial golf tournament at Little Fishing Creek begins at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The public is welcome to attend.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a law that named May 15 of every year as Peace Officers’ Memorial Day.
On Tuesday, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund in Washington, D.C., honored 377 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Haygood was one of 10 from Georgia recognized.
The others were Christopher Robert Betts (East Point Police Department), Melvin Grigley (Atlanta Police Department), Ann Marie Guinta (DeKalb County Police Department), Dan Harrison (Georgia Department of Corrections), James Grover Henderson Jr. (Georgia Department of Corrections), Billy Ray Jiles (Carroll County Sheriff’s Office), Henry Orlander Johnson (Muscogee County Police Department), Thomas James Kersey (Hazlehurst Police Department), Robert L. Massey (Brunswick Police Department), James T. Moye (Seaboard Air Line Railroad Police Department) and Warren James Waters (Jeff Davis Sheriff’s Office).
According to the NLEOMF, 148 officers of the 377 were killed in the line of duty in 2002. The other 229 are historical – names not recorded or reported. Officials said names are always being added.
The first name inscribed on the memorial dates from 1792, which is the first recorded law enforcement death. The memorial has 16,304 names on it, which includes Robinson, Haygood and John T. “Sonny” King III, agent in charge at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Milledgeville.
The memorial was dedicated in 1991 by President George Bush and honors all federal, state and local law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty.
“We are indebted to these men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice,” wrote NLEOMF Chairman Craig Floyd. “Sadly, these walls one day will be filled. We, therefore, are proud to honor the 870,000 federal, state and local officers who continue to put their lives on the line everyday to keep us safe.”
In 2001, 230 officers were killed making it the deadliest year for law enforcement. Of those 230, 72 were killed on Sept. 11. According to NLEOMF, a law enforcement officer is killed somewhere in America every 53 hours.
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Friday, May 9th, 2003 :: Popularity: 15% [?]
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By Payton Towns III – The Union-Recorder
For 117 years, the name of a fallen law enforcement officer from Milledgeville has not been honored during police memorial week. That will change this year.
The name of Charles N. Haygood, a deputy marshal killed in the line of duty Feb. 27, 1886, in downtown Milledgeville, has been placed on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
He joins two other law enforcement officers from Milledgeville who were killed in the line of duty: William Robinson IV, a Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy, and John T. “Sonny” King III, agent in charge at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Milledgeville.
On May 13, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund will host its 15th annual candlelight vigil as part of National Police Week. Haygood’s name will be recognized along with 376 other names of law enforcement officers who have been added since last May.
Haygood was 30 when he was shot by Sam Ennis on Feb. 27, 1886. Ennis was later acquitted of the shooting by a Baldwin County jury.
The ceremony honors the nation’s law enforcement officers and pays tribute to those who have given their lives in the line of duty. As part of the ceremony the names of those officers newly engraved on the wall will be read.
Mark Bell III, MPD chief of detectives, along with Hugh Harrington, a local historian, had been working on getting Haygood’s name added to the wall for more than a year.
“Basically, the person has to be a law enforcement officer who was killed in the line of duty,” Bell said. “They have pages of criteria but that is the bottom line. We know he was killed with a firearm while he was talking to somebody. … He was killed in 1886 and he has never been formerly recognized, which was the police department’s intention.”
Bell along with other representatives from the MPD are going to Washington for the candlelight vigil next week.
MPD Chief Woodrow Blue Jr. said it was good to honor Haygood the same year the city and the county are celebrating their bicentennial.
“I’m real honored that they have seen fit to add his name to the memorial,” the chief said. “He paid the ultimate sacrifice for the community here in Milledgeville and it’s just an honor they’ve added his name. It took a long time but I think it’s a recognition that he deserved to get.”
Bell first heard about Haygood when he was a rookie patrolman in 1986.
“I was riding with Jack Graham, now city marshal, but was then a lieutenant with the police department and my training officer,” Bell said. “We were patrolling Memory Hill Cemetery and he told me of a story about a police officer who was killed downtown a long time ago and I think he told me he was buried there in Memory Hill.”
Years went by and Bell thought about that story one day when he was dispatched to the cemetery. While there, he mentioned Haygood’s story to Harrington.
“He knew (Haygood) was buried in Memory Hill,” Bell said. “I asked him to share some information on Charles Haygood. I told him I wanted to honor him if he was killed in the line of duty.”
Harrington, it turned out, knew a lot about Haygood’s wife, Dixie.
“Mark approached me about it and I was embarrassed,” Harrington said. “I had never thought of it. … He (Haygood) was a popular fellow. I’ve never seen or heard anything negative about him.”
Harrington and his wife, Susan, had done research on Dixie Haygood. After Haygood was killed, his wife was faced to raise three children on her own.
As part of the Harringtons’ investigation to know about her life and work, Dixie Haygood finally received a gravestone, 86 years after her death in 1915 when she was in her early 50s. Her gravestone is next to Charles but it’s in bad condition.
“The original 1886 tombstone is lying flat. It used to be standing up,” Harrington said. “It’s cracked and sort of pushed together and difficult to read now.”
Harrington made copies of newspaper articles from The Union-Recorder, The Macon Telegraph and The Atlanta Journal Constitution and gave them to Bell.
Bell then sent the information to the NLEOMF which returned a letter Feb. 10 informing the MPD that Haygood’s name would be added to the memorial.
According to newspaper articles from The Union-Recorder, The Macon Telegraph and The Atlanta Constitution Journal, the crime occurred on the afternoon of Feb. 27, 1886, following a downtown rally about prohibition held on Han*censored* Street.
“This was pre-prohibition for people who wanted it,” Bell said. “It was a pretty hot issue at the time. (Haygood) was the deputy city marshal at the time and there is no reason not to think that on a Saturday afternoon, with all of these folks in town for the speech, that he was not acting in official capacity.”
Bell said he did not want Haygood’s name on the wall to overshadow Robinson.
“People knew him and he was current generation law enforcement,” Bell said. “We want to be real careful that we don’t take away from Will’s memory. That is not our intention. Our intention is to recognize this guy. That was our determination.”
Bell said they are currently working on getting Haygood recognized at the state law enforcement memorial at the Forsyth Training Center.
Editor’s note: This is the first story in of a two-part series about Charles N. Haygood, a deputy city marshal killed in the line of duty Feb. 27, 1886, in downtown Milledgeville. The series will conclude in the Weekend edition when Haygood’s surviving relatives talk about their great-grandfather’s name being added to the wall and a local historian talks about the murder and trial.
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2003 :: Popularity: 12% [?]
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By Payton Towns III – The Union-Recorder
With members of law enforcement and rescue services present, Bob Wilson talked about Milledgeville’s early crimes and its enforcement in the days before the Civil War.
Members from the Milledgeville Police Department, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia College & State University Police Department, Milledgeville Fire Department and Baldwin County Fire Department attended the Rotary Club’s World Understanding and Peace Day Friday in the basement of the Baldwin County Courthouse.
Wilson, a professor of history at GC&SU, said the history of law enforcement and policing in Milledgeville has not been written. But it’s something he’d like to do.
“It’s not a topic I’ve assigned to my students in my local history course, though it soon will be,” he said. “With the help of Mark Bell (MPD chief of detectives) and others, I will make assignments about it all over the place. There’s a glaring gap in the written history of this community that none of our earlier historians have addressed.”
In the time before the Civil War, Wilson said Milledgeville, which was the capitol of the state, was “a hell-raising town.”
“As soon as the legislature began their sessions in the early fall, the town came alive,” he said. “Gambling, drinking, drunken brawls, dueling, prostitution and straight-out criminal activity. We had it all.”
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