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Alice McCabe has been a volunteer at the Gwinnett Historical Society for many years and she continues to do research for the Society weekly.
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Scott Holtzclaw, President of the Gwinnett County Historical Society. Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Mondays of each month.
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Jerry Moore, Lawrenceville
Trolley conductor.
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IMPORTANT JUNE DATES
June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill.
June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on German-held coast of Normandy on D-Day.
June 14, 1777, Congress adopted the Flag of the United States.
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Lawrenceville High School Alumni: Alida Still, Elizabeth Cofer, Jo Brownlee, Anelle O’Kelley, Joyce Reed, Christine Blaney, Elaine Martin, Janelle Walton, Gene Henson, Martha Frances Hutchins. Seated: Omie Jackson.
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A LOOK BACK IN GWINNETT
•From the Tuesday January 8, 1895 edition of the Gwinnett Herald, “Marshal Robinson has stated that he don’t want the marshal’s place this year unless the salary is increased. He says that the pay is not sufficient for the amount of cussing he receives.”
•From the Buford Advertiser May 24, 1923: “Brown Mule Smith had 5 hits in the baseball game.”
•Bona Allen began working in his tan yard in 1873 by 1923 he produced 300 dozen pairs of shoes. Bona Allen was one of nine children; Bona Allen was born near Dacula on December 27, 1846 and he died in Buford on October 18, 1925. Bona Allen served two years in the Confederate army then married Louise Stanley on November 15, 1866. Bona Allen and Louise Stanley Allen had 6 children.
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Thomas F. Worthey descendants, 3/13/2010 L to R front: Jo K. Puckett, Floyd Clack, 2nd row: Thomas G. Worthy, Hilda K. Underwood, Sue Knight Briscoe, Marvin Worthy, Margie K. McBryar, Donna Rittenhouse, Beverly K. Cooper.
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•Alice Strickland, Mayor of Duluth, was the first woman mayor in Georgia. The Strickland house on Buford Highway in Duluth has many interesting artifacts about the early days of Duluth.
•Duluth was once known as Howell’s Crossing; Dacula was once called Hoke and Chinquapin Grove School became Dacula School.
•In the 1930’s Hoover Overalls were advertised as overalls with no pockets and double strength seats.
CURRENT EVENTS
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Holy Cross Anglican Church Women! Left front, clockwise: Monica Rhodd, Linda Cote, Jeanette Hamersley, Elaine Wood, Ann Hanes, Roberta Ottley and Patty Williams, President. Not pictured: Sandra Strickland and Ann Hanes, Program Chairman.
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The Anglican Church Women in Loganville who collected
baskets for DFACS and Clyde Strickland delivered them
in his pick up truck.
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•At the seventh annual First Families of Gwinnett, hosted by the Gwinnett Historical Society, the following members were inducted into the First Families: Mary Frazier Long, Alice Pittman Davis, Robert Charles Haney, Victor Allen McKelvey, Joseph Pitts Byrd IV, Carolyne Pate Kirkland, Sybil Pate Deacon, Sandra Pate Sorrow, Regina Gayle Hanson, Roy Wyatt Davis.
•The funeral for Constance Cato was on May 22 at the Lawrenceville First Baptist Church.
•The retirement ceremony honoring Colonel Phil Lovin Samples was held at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse at 9 a.m. on Thursday May 20, 2010. Colonel Samples is a Lawrenceville native and the son of Everett and Sibyl Samples who live in Lawrenceville. Col Samples served in the U.S. Air Force for 27 years.
•An alligator recently found in the Dacula area has been relocated to a warmer climate.
•Tours of Lawrenceville are being conducted on Sundays at 1, 2, 3, and 4 p.m. through June. The trolleys leave from the corner of Chestnut and Honest Alley.
•The beautiful wedding of Amy Marien and Shawn Petro was at Little Gardens on April 3, 2010.
•Gwinnett Retired Educators who attended the state convention in Macon on May 2, 3, 4 were Jane Alexander, Reid and Deloris Mullins, Gerry Tilson, Dianne Lockwood, Lois and Woody Allen, and Nita Hallford.
•Jaletta Long Smith graduated with high honors from the Bowen Law School, University of Arkansas on May 15, 2010. Jaletta’s husband, Captain AndreW. Smith, has served two terms in Iraq and is now on assignment in Qatar, an Arab sheikdom on a peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf from the eastern side of Saudi Arabia. Qatar is one of the leading oil-producing areas in the Middle East. The US Airbase is near Doha, the capital.
•The Hamilton Mill Library is now open.
•The new Lawrenceville Police Department building on the corner of Jackson Street and Scenic Highway was dedicated on Friday, May 28, 2010.
•Democratic candidates for Governor of Georgia: Roy Barnes, Thurbert Baker, David Poythress, Dubose Porter. Republican candidates: Nathan Deal, Karen Handel, Eric Johnson, John Oxendine.
•There are more towns in Gwinnett County than in any other county in the state of Georgia.
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Lynn Brown, Amy Marien, Shawn Petro, and
Mary Holmes.
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Jaletta Long Smith on graduation day.
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