Old Pinetucky, Richmond, County, Georgia
Ghost Towns

     In the late 1930's and early 1940's, there was a settlement known as Old Pinetucky in Georgia.  There were 432 families that called it home. Most of them were very poor, although there were some wealthy people that resided there, like the Boardmans who had a summer resort there, and those who had invested in the pine trees that grew there. It was outside what is now Augusta, Georgia on old U.S.41 and Leitner Lake.
     The government wanted to put up an Army base called Camp Gordon and when they bought (or stole as some folks thought) the land in Old Pine Tucky they were tearing down the houses as the people were moving out the front door. They brought in railroad cars of lumber and nails and up went Camp Gordon, which is now Fort Gordon as of the 1950's.
     Fort Gordon now sits where Old Pinetucky was, and there are cemeteries in the reservation (that's what military bases are called), that are taken care of by the Army personnel.

     The official flag raising at Camp Gordon was October 18, 1941. In 1991 they held a 50 year reunion of some of the people that lived in Old Pinetucky, the oldest was 91 years old.

There are books written about Pinetucky:

Pinetucky: "My Lost Utopia", 1983,

Pinetucky: "Lost Trails Echo",
This is reminiscences of Mrs. Hendrix who lived there.

"A Pinetucky Wayfarer: Wanders and Wonders"
In which old family names are remembered. Ashly, Anderson, Bailey, Beasley, Blackstone, Broome, Burch, Cawley, Crawford, Duffie, Edgar, Eubnks, Farmer, Fitzgerald, Fletcher, Gibbs, Hawkins, Hobbs, Holley, Inglett, Ivey, James, King, Leitner, Newman, Palmer, Peebles, Phillips, Powell, Purvis, Ross, Rowe, Sconyers, Strickland, Talton, Tarver, Towbridge, Tucker, Tudor, Wall, Washington, Whitaker, Wiggins, Wren, Wylds and Yonce.

     There are German POWs buried in the cemeteries there also. I suppose every family had their own little cemetery as was the way it was in the "olden days".