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In July 1858, an Irish Foxhound arrived in Georgia as a gift from the noted hunter Nimrod Gosnell of Roxbury Mills, Maryland, to Colonel Miles G. Harris of Hancock County. The male puppy was named “July.” During a fox hunt in October 1859, Colonel Harris invited fox hunters from miles around, who brought their choicest runners, but none matched “July’s” superior performance in chasing red foxes. Hunters from surrounding counties and, in some cases, adjacent states then brought their best bitches to be bred to “July,” beginning the strain of hounds known by the name of its progenitor, “July.”
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