I generally avoid being critical of Vinings “off history,” which one sees in advertising or from a past quoted assumption that seems to have more gravitas than reality. “Four Roses” distillery on Stillhouse Road is one – (that distillery burned in 1904, another opened in Gilmore, and Rose never produced “Four Roses” while in Georgia before 1908 when prohibition forced the company to move to Tennessee). However, the most pervasive seems to be Hardy Pace and his vast “real estate empire of 10,000 acres owned from Buckhead to Vinings.” Argh.
He “might” have, at one time or another, cumulatively owned a lot of land between the two points, but nothing proves more that 2 to 3,000 acres at a time. Most of which, he bought, traded, or bartered after the Gold Lottery around Vinings, but he also sold, bartered, or traded much of that land about as fast as he accumulated it. It’s just something that gets repeated over and over again, I guess because it “sounds better.”
i.e. from the “Bright Side,”August 2009 regarding the VHPS Tour of Homes : ” …purchased 10,000 acres from the state of Georgia in 1838 for $5 an acre.” Really?
Below is the 1860 census extract on Pace, indicating he had “2,ooo” acres valued at $29,500. If he owned more, he would have been of the character to say so.
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