
This photo represents the Pebble Hill Plantation baseball team in 1928 through 1929. Standing left to right by number: 1. Joshua Walden, 2. Joe Reid, 3. Lloyd Austin, 4. Davie Mitchell, 9. Lloyd Hadley (Manager), 10. High Pocket. Several of the players have yet to be identified, but they have been stated as Thomasville Residents.

Mr. Joshus Walden Sr. was the first African American appointed superintendent on any Plantation in the Southwest Georgia area. He was appointed Superintendent on the Mayhall Plantation, which was part of the larger Pebble Hill Plantation. In this photo he is standing with his family prior to playing in a Pebble Hill Baseball game in the mid-1930s.

Charlie B. Lundy was a Thomasville Native and grew up on the Greenwood Plantation. He and his brothers made up the Greenwood Plantation “Eagles” baseball team, with their father Fred Lundy as coach. The Greenwood eagles were one of the best plantation baseball teams in the Thomas County area and played against other plantations around the county. In the 1950’s Charlie B. Lundy became the first African American from Thomasville to be drafted by the Baltimore Oriole Minor Cub Baseball League.






After the Civil War and Reconstruction, Many of the Plantations in the surrounding region of Thomas County became Hunting Loges. In this photo Secretary of Treasurer, George Humphrey and President Dwight D. Eisenhower are with Dog Handler, Mr. Rufus Davis before the group heads out for a Quail hunt at Milestone Plantation in Thomasville Georgia.











This photo shows all the Easter Baskets were transported from the kitchen to the many different Picnic tables. Children and Adults would form a train and pass the baskets all the way down the line so all tables would quickly be filled with food straight from the Kitchen. The Easter Lunch Baskets contained Sandwiches, fruit, little cakes, and two cans of sardines.














