Tattnall County Sawmill

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Workers, pictured circa 1910, pose at the sawmill of Frank Southwell near Mendes, in Tattnall County. The largely agricultural economy of the county in the nineteenth century supported a number of mills, many of which were built by 1849.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Tattnall County Sawmill

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