Godfrey

Incorporated in 1906, Godfrey has been known by many names through its long history, including Hamburg, Evansville, Antioch and Egypt. The present name came from a prominent citizen, Dr. James Ervine Godfrey, who married into the local Walton family. The commercial center of Godfrey contained, at one time, eight stores, a bank, barber shop, livery stable, icehouse, cotton gin, warehouse, peach shed, railroad depot and Walton's Mill. The Godfrey Post Office was established in 1880. Two Baptist churches and one Methodist church are located in Godfrey.

The school, constructed near the Anitoch Baptist Church in the early 1900's, was consolidated into the Morgan County school system after closing in 1956. Prior to the proliferation of automobiles, Godfrey was dependent on the Central of Georgia railroad for travel, mail and shipment of goods. Godfrey today is a farming and residential community.

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Annie Sue and Betty Folds at Walton's Mill, 1942	Cleo and Annie Sue Folds. 1938	George Burris and Cleo Folds	Antioch Baptist Church, 2007
Godfrey School - Aubrey Moon	History of Godfrey	Bridge at Walton's Mill	Godfrey Post Office location, 1939

Memories of Godfrey

"The school, it was a wooden building, had three classrooms and a lunch room. At one time, it had four classrooms and then as they took grades off, they had to make one of those rooms into a lunch room. One room had first, second and third grades in it and then the other room had fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. Then we had an empty room to keep books and stuff in. One teacher in each room. We had two teachers."

Aubrey Moon, interviewed June 20, 2009