Excerpt from The City of Albany and Dougherty County: A Descriptive and Illustrated Pamphlet Albany is the center of a region far-famed for the great fertility of its soil. Southwest Georgia is one of the richest agricultural sections of the country, and all the crops raised in the South are capable of their best development here. The city is in the center of the watermelon and cantaloupe district of Georgia, and ships hundreds of carloads of these fruits to the Northern and Eastern markets during June and July. The soil and climate are perfectly adapted to the requirements of peaches, pears, grapes, plums and other fruits, and many nuts. The finest pecan groves of the South are within a few miles of the city. Albany is surrounded by open, gently rolling country, and there are no swamps near by to endanger the health of her people. The city is at the head of navigation on Flint river, one of the principal inland waterways of the Southeast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.