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I would say this is my favorite town on the tour — if I had to pick one. I don’t want to pick favorites, but if I had to pick one. And the reason I would say that is because this is another great example — even moreso, I think, than Cartersville, where we were a second ago — this town is here for one reason: these train tracks right here.
And you might be hard to believe as we’re standing here, there’s traffic is bustling by us as we go. There’s people milling about. There’s three people out in town, and we’ve got 30 people here.
This was a bustling railroad town, if you can believe it in the 1850s and 1860s and even really, into the early 20th century. I know; you’re looking around, you’re thinking this guy’s crazy. This has never been a bustling railroad town.
But if you can believe it, Kingston, where we are now, which was named for John Pendleton King. He was a longtime president of the Georgia railroad. And once upon a time, this town was described as wicked. By 1852, however, it was said that this town had improving — was improving in morals.