At this crossroads stood the store and drug shop of Colonel Robert Chivers, father of Georgia’s “lost poet,” Doctor Thomas Holley Chivers. Born at his father’s plantation home nearby in 1809, Doctor Chivers graduated in medicine at Transylvania University in 1830. He practiced for a short time at this store and, after an unhappy marriage, left this section. After wandering for some time, he settled in Decatur until his death in 1858. “The Lost Pleiad and Other Poems” (1842) is his most popular work, and he is known for his influence on Swinburne, Rossetti, and especially Edgar Allen Poe.