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AMERICUS — As we begin the second half of this present year the month of July started out as the fifth month and was named Quintilis, Roman for fifth. Julius Caesar was born in this month and when he moved the beginning of the new year to Jan. 1 from March 1 he gave Quintilis an extra day. Oddly enough, after his assassination by members of the Roman Senate, they changed the month’s name to Julius in his honor. We enjoy the use of the English translation, July. While our Independence Day is on the fourth, a result of the Continental Congress ratifying the Declaration of Independence on that storied day in 1776, a number of other nations commemorate their own versions in this month. Canada celebrates the first, the Philippines the fourth, Venezuela the fifth, Argentina the ninth, Belgium the 21st and Peru on the 28th. July 1832: Walter L. Campbell, of Houston County, sold Lot 156 in the 27th District for $300 to Sumter County Commissioners Hiram D. Youngblood, Lovett B. Smith, Samuel Faust, Martin G. Mims and Joseph Jackson; Americus town square laid off by Green M. Wheeler and Wright Brady, the latter building the first house (on the southwest corner of Lamar and Lee); state Sen. Lovett B. Smith named the town after Americus Vespucius, the Italian navigator for whom the continents are named, preempting the drawing of name from a hat by Joseph A. "Nap" Cobb July 1834: Americus Baptist Church was granted four acres, on the northeast corner of Troup (now Lee) and Wild; "common burying ground for the citizens of Americus" established on three acres, Lot 1, Square P, where "the present Baptist meeting house now stands" (north side of Ashby at Eastview Cemetery); Methodist Protestant Church society was given four acres, northeast corner of Lot 2, Square R (northwest of Eastview Cemetery); John R. Moore, a general contractor, absconded with $950 for building the new Courthouse, having built nothing (the Inferior Court, precursor to our county commission, that made these decisions consisted of Wiley Davis, Thomas D. Harvey, Daniel N. Little, Alexander Ramsey and Richard Salter) July 1947: “Spirit of the American Doughboy” and Confederate Veterans Memorial monuments had been moved to Rees Park from their prior locations in the intersections of Lamar and Lee for the former and Forsyth and Lee for the latter (both held their positions despite the 2007 tornado’s direct assault on Rees Park); radio station WDEC-AM signed on for the first time July 1963: 11 black citizens (Carol Barner, Annie Lou Ragans, Sandra Russell, Willie Mae Smith, Gloria Westbrooks, James A. Westbrooks, LuLu Westbrooks, et. al.) made the first integration attempt of public facilities in the city’s entire history at the Martin Theater (now where the drive-in windows for Wachovia Bank are), with a follow-up boycott, the Sumter County Movement; Sumter County Movement’s official statement of purpose, signed by Lonnie Evans, of near Cobb, was published in the Americus Times-Recorder July 1965: Mary Kate Fishe Bell became the first black woman to run for public office in the history of Sumter County when she qualified to run against J.W. Southwell for Justice of the Peace in the 789th District; Mary Kate Fish Bell, Mamie Campbell, Lena Turner and Gloria Wise were freed from jail by federal Judge W.A. Bootle after having been arrested for integrating a voting line; Sumter County Movement began an economic boycott of Americus' white businesses; 500 whites attended a speech by Lester Maddox at the Recreation Center; Community Relations Committee formed by the County Commissioners and Americus City Council: Audrey Bass, Mrs. R.C. McNeill Sr., Lang Sheffield, John Pope, Spencer Pryor, W.E. “Billy” Smith, Warren Fortson and the Rev. Dr. Harold A. Collins; Andy Whatley, white, was murdered by Charles Lee Hopkins, the shooter, and Willie James Lamar, the driver, both black, in a drive-by shooting at the southwest corner of Hampton and Lamar (both served prison terms and still live as of this writing, the former in Florida, the latter in Americus) July 1971: Andersonville National Cemetery, under the aegis of the U.S. Army, became Andersonville National Historic Site, under the National Park Service of the U.S. Interior Department; Paul Anderson, "World's Strongest Man," spoke at the Leslie United Methodist Church youth revival; Americus Mayor J. Frank Myers appointed a Human Relations Committee with John Davis, B.R.B. Davis, Mrs. Russell Thomas Jr., Homer T. Warren, Tommy Hooks III*, Mrs. Langdon Sheffield, white, and Lucile Tyson, Thelma Barnum, James Bryant, the Rev. E.D. Sims, John Harris, Arthur Pless, black (*immediately resigned due to unforseen business developments) July 1996: Board of Regents changed the name of Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Southwestern State University; '96 Centennial Olympic Torch passed through Sumter County with local runners Katie Brochu, Sarah Dew, Greg Garth, Susan Henry, Alvin Jackson, Ethel Marshall, Francis Pate, John Rivers, David Smith, Dan Torbert, Charlie Whitehead Jr.

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