at the Historic Bodiford House
“Red” Sanders was a pioneer school bus driver who built the body of his first school bus out of wood in the early 1930’s. Moreover, he was a community, county and state leader throughout his life. Roy Mayes Sanders was born to John Monroe Sanders and Maggie Smith Sanders on June 15, 1907. He preferred […]
Luke Penn was born on March 30, 1889 to Rev. Alexander A. Penn and Mrs. Bunch Miles Penn and a life-long resident of Powder Springs. Luke married Charity Young (1896-1962) in 1913 and had 14 children. Charity was the daughter of Sandy Young, a prominent and popular barber who practiced in downtown in the Lewis […]
Additional entries from the Diary of Lois Bookout made during 1911 when she was about 13 years old. These excerpts are from April 16 to June 6. This Diary appears to be the only one that has survived since Lois recorded her daily life and observations and has been preserved by her great niece Brenda […]
Thomas Newell Lindley was a very industrious and versatile man. He had a store on Marietta Street where he sold shoes, dry goods, groceries, gents’ furnishings, farm implements, hardware and feed. Farmers brought butter, eggs, and chickens to the store to barter for coffee, sugar, lard, salt and other items. Walter (Soup) Turner came to […]
Lois Ives Bookout was born in 1897 in Powder Springs, GA to Jessie Thomas Arandal Bookout and Margaret A. Shipp. Lois married Robert “Bob” T. Lindley in 1925. However, they did not have any children but raised Lois’ orphaned nieces and nephews. Lois kept a diary, as she was growing up, recording her observations of […]
The women in the black community had fewer opportunities outside the home than did their husbands and like the women in the white communities. However, they did play an important part in making a difference in Powder Springs. Their contributions are often over looked. History does not always tell their stories and importance. With fewer […]
Sisters Ethel and Rena Clark started a popular local baking business producing pies and cakes from Ethels home on Butner Street in the early 1950’s. They passed this legacy on to Rena’s daughter, Willie G. Watts, teaching her how to make the pies and cakes. After Ethel passed away in 1993, Wille continued the family […]
Powder Springs was like most settlements in the early days that as they grew from a small settlement into a community then a town, it had many ‘First’ things that took place. This was how the settlement grew into a town and prospered through the years. The area was originally part of the Cherokee Indian […]
Most histories are written about the men who made a difference in the settling of our country, our towns, our cities, etc. However, much is not written about how important the women played in helping shape our country and communities. They are often overlooked. The women were always there in the background working with the […]
The Powder Springs Senior Citizen’s Center was established in 1985 and opened in the old Powder Springs School Primary building on Atlanta Street. By 1990 the Senior’s occupied two of the buildings, the old Primary School building and the old Lunchroom building. The last use of the buildings on campus was as an Elementary School. […]