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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Goose Pond Community |
 | | An early reference to the area mentions a William Candler, Whig partisan and future representative for Richmond County, who in October 1773 was to receive 100 acres starting at an abandoned field above the Goose Pond Creek if he brought settlers onto the land within a nine-month period. |
 | | Some of the more influential residents or individuals closely associated with that community included Meriwether Lewis, who lived there as an adolescent, George Mathews, Benjamin Taliaferro, George Rockingham Gilmer, General David Meriwether, William Wyatt Bibb, and William Harris Crawford. |
 | | Goose Pond gradually experienced an economic and population decline by the late nineteenth century because of soil depletion caused by tobacco and cotton production; the opening of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas territories; distance from the railroads; and the Civil War. |
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