Post by L Roebuck on Oct 20, 2008 5:41:55 GMT -5
Cave Spring: Like The Good Old Days
Not a lot has changed at Cave Spring, Ga. since the Civil War days when Sherman came calling - it's still the small town of yesteryear.
Old homes, towering old trees, crystal-clear streams add up to the tranquillity most modern towns have left far behind.
Sue Worshan said a lot of that has to do with the kind treatment that the townsfolk gave Gen. William T. Sherman and his men. She said Sherman spared the town the torch he administered to most other places along his "March To The Sea."
She said Sherman's injured soldiers were nursed back to health at the old academy that still stands just outside the cave and spring that gives the town its name.
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Not a lot has changed at Cave Spring, Ga. since the Civil War days when Sherman came calling - it's still the small town of yesteryear.
Old homes, towering old trees, crystal-clear streams add up to the tranquillity most modern towns have left far behind.
Sue Worshan said a lot of that has to do with the kind treatment that the townsfolk gave Gen. William T. Sherman and his men. She said Sherman spared the town the torch he administered to most other places along his "March To The Sea."
She said Sherman's injured soldiers were nursed back to health at the old academy that still stands just outside the cave and spring that gives the town its name.
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