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The Atlanta Historical Bulletin THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY No. 5 APRIL, 1931 The Bulletin is the organ of the Atlanta Historical Society and is sent free to its members. All persons interested in the history of Atlanta are invited to join the Society. Correspondence concerning contributions for the Bulletin should be sent to the Editor, Stephens MitcheU, 605 Peters Building, Atlanta. Applications for membership and dues should be sent to the Secre­ tary and Treasurer, Miss Ruth Blair, at the office of the State Historian, Rhodes Memorial Hall, 1516 Peachtree Street. Single numbers of the Bulletin may be obtained from the Secretary. The price is $1.00. THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY No. 5 APRIL, 1931 CONTENTS B. F. BOMAR, ATLANTA'S SECOND MAYOR, by T. D. Kllian 5 JEFFERSON DAVIS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF BENJAMIN H. HILL, by Walter McElreath 9 QUEER PLACE NAMES IN OLD ATLANTA, by Eugene M. Mitchell 22 RESIDENTS OF DEKALB COUNTY IN 1833, by Franklin Garrett 31 WHITEHALL TAVERN, by Wilbur G. Kurtz 42 EDITORIAL NOTES 50 ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. OFFICERS. WALTER MCELREATH President EUGENE M. MITCHELL Vice-President MISS RUTH BLAIR Secretary and Treasurer Miss TOMMIE DORA BARKER Librarian CURATORS. FORREST ADAIR A. A. MEYER MISS TOMMIE DORA BARKER E. M. MITCHELL MISS RUTH BLAIR MRS. J. K. OTTLEY DR. PHINIZY CALHOUN EDWARD C. PETERS WILLIAM RAWSON COLLIER MRS. R. K. RAMBO JOHN M. GRAHAM MRS. JOHN M. SLATON CLARK HOWELL HOKE SMITH JOHN ASHLEY JONES W. D. THOMSON JAMES L. MAYSON EDGAR WATKINS WALTER MCELREATH WM. FORT WILLIAMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. EUGENE M. MITCHELL MRS. JOHN M. SLATON A. A. MEYER JAMBS 1.. MAVSON JOHN M. GRAHAM WALTER MCELREATH, EX Officio MISS RUTH BLAIR, EX Officio Miss TOMMIE DORA PARKER, EX Officio STEPHENS MITCHELL, Editor J)K. 15. F. BOMAR, ATLANTA'S SECOND MAYOR THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN Volume I APRIL, 1931 No. 5 A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DR. B. F. BOMAR, ATLANTA'S SECOND MAYOR By his Grandson, T. D. KILLIAN Dr. Benjamin Franklin Bomar, second mayor of Atlanta, was born in Spartanburg, S. C, August 9, 1816. He came to Atlanta in 1847 and after serving a term as alderman in the city's first council was elected mayor and held that office from January 17, 1849, to January 23, 1850. Dr. Bomar was of Virginia stock. His father, the Reverend Thomas Bomar, was born in Essex County, Virginia, April 13, 1770; married Elizabeth C. High of Halifax County October 26, 1797; and settled in Spartanburg, S. C, in 1804, where he not only served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, but also as tax collector and later ordinary of Spartanburg County. Dr. Bomar, the mayor, was educated in Spartanburg, "read medicine" with a physician there for a time, took a course at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston in 1839, and came as a young man to North Georgia to practice his profes­ sion. On October 1,1840, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Lump­ kin Haynes, a connection of the well-known Haynes (or Hayne) family of South Carolina, at Cumming, Ga. A few years later they moved to Dahlonega, then a prosperous gold-mining town with a mint, where he practiced for several years; but having im­ paired his health making his rounds on horseback in the severe winters of that cold mountain climate, and the importance of the town as a gold-mining center having begun to wane, he decided 6 THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN to give up the practice of medicine and try his fortunes in Texas, regarding which state he had received favorable accounts from his brother, Dr. Alexander H. Bomar, a surgeon with the United States forces in the War with Mexico then in progress. Accord­ ingly, in 1847, he left Dahlonega, and on April 30 of that year reached Atlanta with his wife and two children and put up at the Atlanta Hotel, intending to resume his journey after a brief halt; but he was so favorably impressed with the town, which already had three railroads and was full of life and activity, that he abandoned his plan of going to Texas and decided to settle here instead. Dr. Bomar's first enterprise in Atlanta was a store of general merchandise. It is not known just where his first store was lo­ cated, but the records show that on July 11, 1849, he bought from W. R. Davis a lot on the east side of Whitehall Street, one lot re­ moved from the corner of Mitchell, paying $250.00 for the same. This lot had a frontage of thirty feet and ran back 210 feet. Later, on March 14, 1850, he bought from Allen E. Johnson for the sum of $100.00 a ten-foot strip adjoining this lot on the north and running through from Whitehall to Pryor Street. A charter having been granted in December, 1847, incorpo­ rating the town of Atlanta (by which name it had already been known for more than a year), an election of officers was held on January 31, 1848, and Moses Formwalt was elected the city's first mayor, Dr. B. F. Bomar was elected alderman, and five councilmen also were chosen. A year later another election was held and Dr. Bomar was elected mayor, his candidacy having been espoused by the church element in an effort at reform. As Dr. Bomar was but thirty-two years old at this time, it is possible that he may have been the youngest mayor the city has had. During Dr. Bomar's term of office the first bonds were is­ sued—$500.00 due in six months. The tax rate for the year was fixed at thirty cents per $100.00. Salaries of some of the town's officials were fixed as follows: Marshal, $300.00 per annum; Treasurer, two per cent for receiving and paying out; Tax Re- B. F. BOMAR, ATLANTA'S SECOND MAYOR 7 ceiver and Collector, three per cent; Clerk to have fees of office. Three hundred copies of the city ordinances were ordered printed, and the proceedings of council were ordered published in THE INTELLIGENCER. A committee, of which Dr. Bomar was a mem­ ber, was appointed "to select a place for a graveyard," and this committee selected a tract of six acres, which was afterwards bought for $75.00 per acre and became Oakland Cemetery. (The old cemetery was some distance out on Peachtree road and hard to reach.) A section of Whitehall Street was cleared of stumps at this time, the work being done largely by city prisoners who had been tried before the mayor, found guilty of small misde­ meanors, and sentenced by him to dig up a certain number of stumps each as punishment. The Atlanta and West Point Rail­ road was completed while Dr. Bomar was mayor. As stated above, his term expired January 23, 1850. On March 11, 1851, a committee of which Dr. Bomar was a member was appointed to take steps for an agricultural fair. This Committee selected for the fair grounds a lot on East Fair Street now occupied by the Fair Street School and paid fifty dollars an acre for it. The location was criticised by some as being too far out and the price was considered somewhat high. The fair was held that fall and, while only a small one, was regarded as a success. On December 20, 1853, Fulton County was formed by act of the Legislature, and on February 23, 1854, the first election of county officers being held, Dr. Bomar was chosen clerk of court, thus becoming the first Clerk of Fulton Superior Court. Dr. Bomar was an active churchman. On January 1, 1848, he and fifteen others met and organized the First Baptist Church with the Reverend D. G. Daniel as pastor. A lot at the corner of Walton and Forsyth Streets (present postoffice site) was bought for $130.00 and a plain wooden building was erected. Dedication services were held the first Sunday in June, 1848. Dr. Bomar, in addition to being a deacon, was superintendent of the Sunday school. It is said that at one time or another he held every office in the church except that of pastor. In August, 1854, he and his wife and seventeen others withdrew, in a spirit 8 THE ATLANTA HISTORICAL BULLETIN of perfect good will, and organized the Second Baptist Church, of which he remained an active member until his death. Dr. Bomar never practiced medicine regularly after coming to Atlanta, but was often called into consultation by other phy­ sicians and occasionally performed an emergency operation. When the first class was graduated from the Atlanta Medical Col­ lege, September 1, 1855, he was given an honorary diploma. He was a member of the city board of health in 1854. In 1849, while mayor, Dr. Bomar, along with Z. A. Rice, Jonathan Norcross, and I. O. McDaniel, started a newspaper called THE INTELLIGENCER. Several newspapers had been started, but all had failed, and it was felt that a successful newspaper was a public need. THE INTELLIGENCER proved a success, became an influential organ, and continued publication until after the War. Meanwhile, however, it had changed hands half a dozen times. Dr. Bomar was a member of the first Masonic lodge organ­ ized in Atlanta, the Atlanta Lodge, No. 59, which is still actively in existence. This he joined soon after coming to Atlanta. In 1851, he and others organized the Fulton Lodge, No.
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