Peach County:: The World's Peach Paradise

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THE WORLD’S PEACH PARADISE

This photograph was taken in Fort Valley, facing southeast down Main Street toward the J.F. Troutman house. Note the various architectural styles of the buildings and how wide the street was. The Troutman house was moved to that lot between 1906 and 1920. The house was built prior to the Civil War, about a mile south of its present location. The town of Fort Valley was incorporated in 1856.

The picture shows an overview of the north middle section of Main Street. In the foreground was the office of the local paper, The Leader Tribune. Fort Valley had maintained a newspaper since before 1859. Note the dry goods store next door with a sampling of its wares out front.

North Railroad Street ran parallel to the railroad toward the Coca Cola bottling plant. On the left was Samuel M. Halprin’s dry goods store. Mr. Halprin immigrated to this country in 1900 from Riga, Latvia. Next door to Halprin’s store was the New Dixie Hotel. Rooms were always in demand because of the many inspectors and brokers who came to town during peach season.

This photograph shows a view looking in the opposite direction on North Railroad Street. The Winona Hotel stands in the background. Along the street, men were laying pipes for the water system. On the right was the American Sanitary Lunchroom. Note the wagons on the