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Jefferson, Georgia:

The Golden Years !

By Cecil Buffington

Cecil Buffington Grew up in small-town Jefferson, Georgia, Circa: 1,700 population in 1960.   Buffington considers the period from right after World War II until the end of the fifties as the "Golden Age" of Jefferson.  

                  

Click Jefferson City Schools for Board of Education and High School Information.

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Down the hill by the old courthouse in Jefferson, Georgia

Probably the most prominent building in Jefferson.

"The Square" in Jefferson

The Gainesville Midland Engine beside Jefferson High School. A tradition for over 45 years.

Jefferson High School ~ Circa; 1964

1964 Jefferson Annual ~ The Jeffersonian

Jefferson Civic Center ~ 2009

The Joe Baxter Computer Center at Jefferson High School ~ 2009

The Crawford Long Mural on the wall of the old Commerce telephone office building.

Jefferson Academy ~ Jefferson pre-school 2009

Jefferson High School Class of 1964 ~ 2004 reunion - Bottom Row - Left to Right - Danny Glenn, Betty Edwards Miller, Neda Stringer Biggs, Marie Standridge Casper, Dennis Elrod, 2nd Row - Left to Right - Posey Storey Henson, Julia Stovall Howard, Vickie Ray Dunn, Jackie Spencer Braswell, Gloria Spence Henderson, Guy Dean Parks Benson, Dell Keike Tate, Terry Marlowe, Back Row - Left to Right - Dan Cagle, Barbara Colvard Davis, Thomas Bond, Susan Ethridge Chaisson, Terry Cotton, Cecil Buffington, Tommy Riddle, Pat Head, Tommy George, Danny Wilson, and Charles Crowe.

Jefferson Class of '64 at 1990 reunion - Row 1 - Left to Right - Harold Mauldin, Terry Cotton, Jerry Gearin, Bill Stringer, Peggy Strickland Usry, Row 2 - Left to Right - Saralyn Foster Robinson, Posey Sorey Henson, Dell Keike Tate, Martha Anglin Burns, Gloria Spence Henderson, Mary Ann Johnson Barnwell, Joyce Beatty Wells, Row 3 - Left to Right - Guy Dean Parks Benson, Jackie Spencer Braswell, Barbara Jo Nash, Pat Beatty, Neda Stringer Biggs, Betty Edwards Miller, Julia McEver Kirksey, Ruth Pharris Airlie, Row 4 - Left to Right - Danny Glenn, Sara Massey Hensley, Susan Etheridge Chaission, Pat Head, Johnny Pethel, Terry Marlowe, Brenda Fay Clark Tanner, Back Row - Left to Right - Tommy George, Cecil Buffington, Charles Crowe, Thomas Bond, Tommy Riddle, and Dennis Elrod

Cecil Buffington ~ Age 4 ~ 1949

Cecil Buffington ~ Third grade ~ 1954

Cecil Buffington ~ Age 11 ~ 1956 ~ Fifth Grade

Cecil Buffington ~ Age 14 ~ 1959 ~ Eighth Grade ~ Coach Herren's homeroom

The 1947 Jefferson High school Mud Turtles ~ First Row - L-R - Sidney johnson, C.B. Lord, Carrol Dadisman, Dickie Copas, Eugene Toney, Captain James Faulkner, Billy Sailors, Donald White, Bobby Loggins, Second Row - L-R - Coach Frank Snyder, Wylie McEver, Paul Ferguson, Quillian Garrison, L.G. Jackson, Joe Glosson, Garnett Parks, Nathan Woodall, M.C. Simmons, Lloyd Craven, William Phillips, Third Row - L-R - George Davis, David Foster, Jr. Lord, James Medlin, Claudius Thurmond, C.L. Potts, Roy Smith, Harry Bryan, Curtis Segars, and Raymond Adams.

Coach Frank Snyder - 1947-49

Great Dragon Teams ~ The 1954 Region Championship team ~ Row 1 - Dan Hutchins, Robert Taylor, Charles Gilbert, Bobby Manus, J. Gooch, Gus Johnson ~ Row 2 - L - R - Bobby Potter, D. Murphy, Donald Marlowe, Monk Tolbert, Wayne Wages, E. Stancil, Columbus Wiliamson, ~ Row 3 - L-R - Gilmer Glenn, Benny Tompkins, Bucky Johnson, Jerry Black, Webster Samples, C. Fleeman, H. Cooper, Woodrow Stewart, - Not Shown ~ Billy Ricks, Howard Langford and Bobby Nix.

Coach Stoudenmire and Coach Lofton with Quarterback Gene Thurmond.

Coach John Davis ~ 1951 - 1965

A view of the old courthouse

Mr. Morris Bryan Jr.

The NEW Jackson County Courthouse located just outside Jefferson.

Old Jefferson Mills ~ Southworth Division - Now a carpet and furniture outlet.

Jefferson Lumber Company ~ 2009

The Jackson Herald office ~ 2009

Kinney's of Jefferson ~ Built by Tom Crow ~ Purchased by Kinney's in 1950.

A Jefferson Street ~ First store was formerly Ideal Dress shop with Georgia Power next door ~ Now prominent for The Crawford W. Long Drug Store.

The Crawford W. Long Museum.

The old Roosevelt Theater site and Keslers' Cloverland Supermarket ~ now an insurance office and a dinery/night club.