The Royston High School marching band was on hand and provided the music. Rev. Neal Windom, pastor of the local Methodist Church, led with the invocation. Mr. Cobb officially dedicated the Gym and mayor Clete D. Johnson proudly claimed, “our new building is one of the finest in Northeast Georgia. We are especially happy to have Ty Cobb dedicate the facility.”The activities were exciting and everyone enjoyed an evening of basketball as the Carnesville teams were hosted by the local boys and girls teams playing their first game of the season.
Ty, on the other hand, had been exercising his emotions to come home. This was where he belonged now. And his next trip would be to buy some property to build on.
His first choice was adjacent to the land that he use to claim ownership to. Where the Dill’s shopping center is now located, situated on a hillside overlooking the fields where he once plowed a “bulky mule.”
After that deal split at the seams, Ty was interested in a stretch of land that covered the top of a hill going out highway 17 to Elberton. The owners knew the prospect was wealthy and intended to make a hansom profit, but Ty wasn’t going to be crossed up homefolks or not.
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