Remembering Who We Are…….
Water, Water Everywhere
by Janey Roney
We’ve been reviewing the reasons Asa’s Point (the future Sullivan) was chosen as the site for the county seat of Moultrie County in 1845 instead of the thriving, well-established village of East Nelson. East Nelson had everything going for it with several businesses, a doctor, a Methodist church and parsonage, and a school, as well as the Purvis Saw and Grist Mill upriver from Nelson Ford where three major trails crossed.