Page Contents for Summertown, Georgia

Statistics & Facts

Location

Historical Events

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Statistics & Facts

The Georgia state capital is Atlanta.
The population of Summertown is approximately 153 (1990), 160 (2010).
The approximate number of families is 62 (1990), 56 (2010).
The amount of land area in Summertown is 2.06 sq. kilometers.
The amount of surface water is 0 sq kilometers.
The distance from Summertown to Washington DC is 523 miles.
The distance to the Georgia state capital is 146 miles. (as the crow flies)
Summertown is positioned 32.74 degrees north of the equator and 82.27 degrees west of the prime meridian.

Location

near Swainsboro in central Georgia.
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Summertown Historical Events

1940's to 1960's
My Great Grandparents Robert "Rob" Leonard BROWN and Mabel FRANKLIN, lived in Summertown, GA. They owned a boarding house and soup kitchen that housed and fed 40 tenants. My mother was born in their home in Summertown, to their daughter Elizabeth BROWN, and my grandfather Henry Goodwin SMITH, who is the son of Guy Barrett SMITH.

My mother said to me when I was a child that with a nickel, she could buy a "moon pie" and a "coca-cola" from the little store about one half of one mile away from the small home she stayed in. My mother's mother, Elizabeth BROWN, died in 1949, and my mother came to live with her Grandparents, Mabel and Robert BROWN. She worked for the boarding house, and that is where she met my father, James W. JOHNSON (1924-1990) from Bearden, TN. He was a veteran of WWII, and had been a POW in WWII.
Submitted by Rebecca Figone