| #4216211 in Books | Arcadia Publishing | 2005-08-15 | 2005-08-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.31 x6.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 128 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Pembroke a place called home.|By Terri Owens-Newton|I love this book. It is a great recollection of some of our ancestors and things about them that we didn't know. I am from Pembroke and this book made me proud to call it my home.|About the Author|The Pembroke Centennial Committee has compiled a collection of around 200 images documenting their town’s birth and growth through the present, as the Georgia community continues to flourish.
A location between Savannah and Statesboro encouraged the town of Pembroke to grow into a hub of commercial activity. Timber and turpentine from the Georgia pine forests, as well as cotton, were the main commercial activities of the early town. The city of Pembroke began as a result of the extension of the Savannah and Western Railroad through the upper part of Bryan County in 1889. The town’s first resident was M.E. Carter, a member of the railroad construction cr...
You easily download any file type for your device.Pembroke: 1905 - 2005 (GA) (Images of America) | Pembroke Centennial Committee. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
