First Successful Artesian Well Bored in Georgia - 1881

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"In February, 1881, on Hickory Level plantation, in the western part of Dougherty County, twenty miles from Albany, John P. Fort undertook the boring of an artesian well. On August the fourth, at a depth of four hundred and fifty feet, a flow of pure water was obtained at the rate of seven gallons per minute. Since his death this well has been marked with a suitable tablet, and with the quarter of an acre of land surrounding it, has been deeded by his heirs to the county to be kept as a perpetual memorial."

"History of Dougherty County"
page 175
photo by Robert L. Wait, USGS (Retired)