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Even as a child, little Dianne Harrist knew exactly what she was born to do – teach. On weekends she held class in the shed behind her Momma’s store on Main Street and all the neighborhood kids – including her little brother Sidney – had to finish their studies before they could ride her Shetland pony.

In a secret location around the Kildare area George Echols farms watermelons. The Echols’ have been watermelon farming for five generations.

By 1902 the city of Atlanta had electricity furnished by Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, with a power plant on West Street. However, it was more than 37 years later that homes outside the city limits were wired with electricity through the newly-formed Bowie Cass Electric Cooperative.