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Locust
Grove Baptist Church
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, July 2007 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Named after the middle name of the town's first postmaster (James
Hughes), the community had been known as Locust Grove prior to 1893.
The population around 1900 was a healthy 110 residents where it remained
more or less through WWII. A sharp decline set in, reducing the number
of Hiramites to a mere 30. It has remained at that level to the present
and only the Baptist Church and cemetery remain with a nursing home
according to some sources. |
Locust
Grove Cemetery in Hiram
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, July 2007 |
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