| This page is dedicated to Cullen Lee Wood who passed away Saturday, December 4, 2004. |
| "The
village of Coopers developed about the time the Central of Georgia
Railroad laid its spur line from Gordon to Eatonton in 1851. It got its
name from a family who owned land in the vicinity of railroad crossing,
Rev. William M. Cooper and his son, Thomas
J. Cooper" Coopers
Memoirs Some Early Families of Coopers area: Ready, Stinson, Knight, Woolsey, Hall, Poindexter, Murphy, Hill, Etheridge, Woodall, Ivey, Cobb, West, Ivey, McMullen, Welch, Everitt, Curry, McKiney, Fuller, Conly, Perry, Cone, Young, McCarty, Hubbard, Seaborn, Bivins, Rice, Edge, Sullivan, Torrance, Parker, Smith, Beckwith, Callahan, Huson, Lee, Lester, Worsham, Lewis, Minter, McCrary, Perry, Brown, Bowers, Welch, Cumbess, Woolsey, Stephens, Macklin, Gay, Moore, Wicker, Hill, Stevens, and Cooper. |
Cemeteries In The Area 1956 Topograph Map See article from The Macon Telegraph about the Twin Cities Coopers and Stevens Pottery
Photograph of man and child seeding cotton, Coopers, ca. 1920-1939 |
Coopers Museum
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Camp Creek Primitive Baptist Church, est. 1817
Rev. William M. Cooper was pastor here.
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Thomas J. Cooper House c. 1900
Effie Cooper, daughter of Thomas J. Cooper
was a ticket agent for Central of Ga. R.R.
and sold tickets from a window of house.
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Catherine Cooper Branan Carpenter House c. 1883
Birthplace of Judge and Milledgeville
Mayor George Carpenter Sr.
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Merrit Etheridge-Robinson-Isaac Berry House circa
1865
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Cooperville Cemetery, behind church
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Cooperville Baptist Church, established 1904
1st wooden church destroyed by lightening in 1930,
this building replaced it 90 days later.
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Rollin W. Ivey Store
built early 1900's, closed 1957, demolished June 2004
Previous owners J. C. Cooper, Charles H. Cooper, J. H. Gladin
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams 2003
Cooper- Ivey - Betha Home built 1905
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Ivey - Barnes- Foldendore Home
built 1917
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Old Fleming Pierce Store (1930) and Pierce Home
(1917), Gordon Hwy.
built early 1900's
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Abandoned Farm House On Pancras Road next to Torrance
House
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams
Old McCullar house on Grace Weaver Rd. Built 1842
Photo by Eileen Babb McAdams June 9, 2006
Sources: Coopers Memoirs, A Treasure of
Memories, Family Histories & Stories of Coopers, Georgia;
Georgia's Virtual Library
