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The Second Creek Community, including the community of Cherry Hill
Second Creek got its name from the directions to John Puckett's house, when John would tell people he lived past the second creek on the Eagle Bottom. John Puckett was a veteran on the Revolutionary War. He married Rhoda Lyda in 1809 in White County; they had eight children. He was buried near his home in Eagle Bottom in 1844. Floating Mill Park is in the back yard of his grandson's home. Tradition says that the Second Creek Methodist Church, a log building, was built on John Puckett's land in the 1820's, and that it also served as a school.
The Methodists brought Sunday schools into DeKalb County, and in 1878 Second Creek had Sunday school which lasted from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Some objected to it as a desecration of the Sabbath. However, the Pucketts supported the Methodists strongly, and led in the construction of a new building around 1900. Most of the area residents also attended there, including the Hezekiah Love family near the Pucketts, the Bill Moss family across the river, and the Medleys, Murdocks and other families on Second Creek itself.
A new school was also built at Second Creek around 1900 not far from the church. There was never a post office on Second Creek; the area was served by the Silver Point post office just across the Putnam County line. Much of the commercial business was also done at Silver Point, especially after the railroad came through there about 1890.
The road to Silver Point went out to the ridge east of Second Creek. Roscoe Jones, Bud LeFever, E.C. Brown and others lived there, but considered themselves part of the Second Creek community.
The area close to Silver Point, near where John Anderson lived, came to be called Cherry Hill, and a school was built there by the 1920's. It had two teachers in 1940. A store operated by Ozias LeFever and his family was nearby and only closed in recent years. A community center for Cherry Hill is used as a voting place, but now many of the homes in the area are vacation homes rather than permanent residences.
Not far from Hurricane Bridge is the Hurricane Boat Dock, which serves the many fishermen and others that visit Center Hill Lake.
The Methodists brought Sunday schools into DeKalb County, and in 1878 Second Creek had Sunday school which lasted from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Some objected to it as a desecration of the Sabbath. However, the Pucketts supported the Methodists strongly, and led in the construction of a new building around 1900. Most of the area residents also attended there, including the Hezekiah Love family near the Pucketts, the Bill Moss family across the river, and the Medleys, Murdocks and other families on Second Creek itself.
A new school was also built at Second Creek around 1900 not far from the church. There was never a post office on Second Creek; the area was served by the Silver Point post office just across the Putnam County line. Much of the commercial business was also done at Silver Point, especially after the railroad came through there about 1890.
The road to Silver Point went out to the ridge east of Second Creek. Roscoe Jones, Bud LeFever, E.C. Brown and others lived there, but considered themselves part of the Second Creek community.
The area close to Silver Point, near where John Anderson lived, came to be called Cherry Hill, and a school was built there by the 1920's. It had two teachers in 1940. A store operated by Ozias LeFever and his family was nearby and only closed in recent years. A community center for Cherry Hill is used as a voting place, but now many of the homes in the area are vacation homes rather than permanent residences.
Not far from Hurricane Bridge is the Hurricane Boat Dock, which serves the many fishermen and others that visit Center Hill Lake.