Johnson's Ferry or the Johnson Ferry was an important ferry linking what is now Atlanta, across the Chattahoochee River into Northwest Georgia. The name "Johnson" has been corrupted over the years from the owner's name, which was really "Johnston", therefore the ferry was originally called "Johnston's Ferry". There is an historical plaque located on the present Johnson Ferry Road which documents that ownership.
William Marion Johnston, a Georgia native born in 1817, owned the farm at that location during the Civil War and raised thirteen children by two different wives. When he died in 1879, his grave in Marietta, GA was robbed by a janitor from the Atlanta Medical College in order to sell the cadaver to the college.
Read more about Johnson Ferry: Johnson Ferry Road, Bridge Widening
Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or ferry:
“Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“John Brown and Giuseppe Garibaldi were contemporaries not solely in the matter of time; their endeavors as liberators link their names where other likeness is absent; and the peaks of their careers were reached almost simultaneously: the Harper’s Ferry Raid occurred in 1859, the raid on Sicily in the following year. Both events, however differing in character, were equally quixotic.”
—John Cournos (1881–1956)