User:Clacree/Acree, Georgia

The little town of Acree, in Dougherty Co., Georgia, about six miles east of Albany, was originally named Davis - after Captain John A. Davis, who owned the largest nearby farm. When a post office was opened there about 1884, the Davis name could not be used because there was already a post office in a different Davis, Georgia. So the town was re-named Acree - after Sterling Acree, another early settler who was a friend of the first postmaster and an admired, crippled Civil War veteran.