The Bulloch Herald announced on March 23, 1939, that a farmer in Bulloch County had won "Best Negro Farmer of the Year," a prestigious competition of the Atlanta Constitution. Eddie Wilson was a 40-year-old former sharecropper whose hard work allowed him to buy his own farm. He had 124 acres under cultivation, upon which he grew cotton, raised livestock and managed a stand of 144 acres of timber.
Bulloch History with Roger Allen - Bulloch farmer earns state honor in 1939