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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. County names road at Mill Creek Park for first black commissioner The late Gordon Alston served 1983-2004 The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners recently acted to name the main street into Mill Creek Regional Park in memory of the board’s first African-American member, Commissioner Gordon Alston.
The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners recently acted to name the main street into Mill Creek Regional Park and Splash in the Boro Waterpark in memory of the board’s first African-American member, Commissioner Gordon Alston.
Just around the corner from Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center, the site of one of the first all-Black schools in Bulloch County, Georgia, lies 19 acres of land owned by a generational farmer, Roy Mosley.
He says he chose to follow in the agricultural footsteps of his late grandfather Robert “R.L.” Williams, who was a hog farmer and mechanic all his life.
“He and my grandma had a large flock of chickens, we actually sold brown eggs to our local grocery store at one time, and just a lot of customers coming straight to the farm,” said Mosley, who runs Roy Mosley Farms in the small town of Portal, which is about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.