If you like Bishop, like I like Bishop, then you need to buy this book

you are not aware of Celestea Sharp’s award winning book, Bishop, Georgia: The Ancient Roots, Rich History and Enduring Spirit of a Southern Crossroads Community, here is your opportunity to purchase a copy and get it signed. This is an amazing reference book for anyone interested in Oconee County history. Thoroughly researched and cited, Celestea provides a historical narrative not just for Bishop, but for much of the county since so much history in the area is intertwined. See the details below. Pass this along to others who may be interested.



BISHOP, GEORGIA: The Ancient Roots, Rich History and Enduring Spirit of a Southern Crossroads Community

By Celestea Gentry Sharp

SPONSORED BY TOWN OF BISHOP, GEORGIA

The second printing from Wolfe Publishing will be available March 3, 2007.

The Author will be signing books at the Trade-a-Book bookstore, 4991 Macon Highway (U.S. 441), downtown Bishop, Oconee County, on Saturday, March 3, 2007 from 2 to 6 pm.

Books will be available at this location after this date or may be ordered from Trade-A-Book, P.O. Box 241, Watkinsville, GA 30677; 706-769-7492 or toll free 1-866-379-0091.

Cost per copy is $49.95 plus $8.00 shipping and handling if mailed.

Approximately 870 pages

More than 200 photographs, maps, and illustrations

Acid-free archival paper

Hardback cover with handsome dust jacket

WINNER OF THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S LILLA M. HAWES AWARD For BEST LOCAL HISTORY in 1996 AND 1997

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SOME SUBJECTS OF INTEREST

*Recent local archaeological findings on Native Americans

*Bishop’s heyday-its movers and shakers and institutions

*Frontier forts & white settler-Indian skirmishes

*The depression years--how black and white residents fared

*Revolutionary War land grants and grantees

*World Wars I & II and names of Bishop’s veterans

*Ante-Bellum life and Civil War years

*The Town of Bishop’s newcomers & recent revitalization

*Never-before-written history of the Macon-Athens Railroad

*Directories of Houses/Buildings & Businesses

*Bishop’s mysterious female railroad builder/speculator

*Bishop Cemetery information, listed by family plots

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