{"id":24,"date":"2016-07-20T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:33:58","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ngbroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Wellcome-2.png\" alt=\"wellcome\" width=\"386\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Wellcome-2.png 1349w, https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Wellcome-2-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Wellcome-2-768x201.png 768w, https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Wellcome-2-1024x268.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 The City of Nicholson was originally named Cooper. The change to Nicholson was noted as early as 1876, when The Forest News described the stations on the Northeastern Railroad\u2019s Athens to Lula run. The name Cooper was in honor of the Willis Cooper farm just below Nicholson. The people of Cooper, desiring a railroad depot informed President J. Nicholson \u201cthat they would name the town after him if he would make a fuel stop in Cooper so they could sell their wood to the railroad.\u201d The fuel stop was created and the name change occurred and was reported in local papers as early as 1876, however, the post office at Cooper did not change its name to Nicholson until February 2, 1882.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>\u201cSome places are praised for the magnificent buildings, while others are honored for the fine scenery. Nicholson would not take the prize of the above cases, yet she can furnish just as good, cultured people as any town.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-151 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCF2025-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><em>Jewett Barnett &#8211; Jackson Herald 1917<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Situated between the cities of Athens and Commerce, the town has predominantly been a farming community through the years; moreover, the poultry industry was and continues to be an essential part of the local economy. Other commercial endeavors such as general stores, a mattress factory, jewelry store, hat factory, cotton gins just to name a few have enriched and enhanced the lives of Nicholson\u2019s citizens in many ways. Nicholson has always been the home of professionals in business, education, government, law, humanities and the arts, and medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-177 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/birdhouse-150x150.png\" alt=\"birdhouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nEVERIFY # 185910<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The City of Nicholson was originally named Cooper. The change to Nicholson was noted as early as 1876, when The Forest News described the stations on the Northeastern Railroad\u2019s Athens to Lula run. The name Cooper was in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicholson-ga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}