at the Historic Bodiford House
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 […]
In the early 1980’s, a group of Powder Springs citizens with an interest in historic preservation, genealogy and the history of the community, formed the Seven Springs Historical Society. Under the leadership of Sarah Frances Miller, a retired teacher from the Powder Springs School, the Historical Society opened a museum in Powder Spring’s city park […]
In the spring of 2024, the Seven Springs Museum and Historical Society began plans to revitalize the outdoor farm equipment on display. The equipment, now over 100 years old, needed repairs and new signs. It had been last repaired when the museum relocated to the Bodiford House in 2015. The Historical Society saw this as […]
A lot can be learned from old newspapers about how things were in bygone days. Articles about everyday life, what things cost, who was going and doing things in the communities, etc. that helped keep people informed. These are a few of those interesting things that were a way of life for a lot of […]
Quilts that were made and used in everyday life often told stories of family history records, messages in earlier times and community history. These were usually made from scraps of cloth or old rags and clothes no longer usable, which told a history in itself. Our quilts displayed here on the wall in the ‘Quilt […]
Circa 1900 – 1920 During the 1988 Sesquicentennial Celebrations, the Seven Springs Historical Society revived the Powder Springs Enterprise and the Powder Springs Pioneer, publishing articles that appeared in the original papers. It also included the history of the town, its people, activities, and merchant ads. Poem printed in the October 27, 1910 edition The […]
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 […]