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Smallpox epidemic hits Boro, Bulloch Co. in 1903
Bulloch History
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In July of 1898, a number of residents who lived in and around Swainsboro contracted small pox. It all began when one of Dr. Bell’s sons contracted the disease while in an Army camp, and escaped from the quarantine camp and returned home.
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