The Shelleys Of Georgia Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Shelleys of Georgia County, Georgia, consisted of a small frame church, a smaller schoolhouse, a meager country store, and the scattered homes of perhaps a dozen families. One of these houses, a big, old-fashioned mansion at the town end of acres of rolling land, had been unoccupied and desolate for years, with its outhouses and stables falling into ruin, and itself taking on the haunted look which attaches to places that have once teemed with life and bustle. Then its owner, Captain Gabriel Shelley, returned from the war, weak and emaciated from a slowly healing wound and the hardships he had undergone, but his brain clear and over owing with ideas. He opened the house, hired the negroes who once had been his slaves, and in less than thirty-three years he made Salem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."