Weaver
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70 Birthday
by Benjamin Nunnally
T
he City of Weaver is celebrating their
70th birthday in September, and
they’ve got plans to make it a real
bash.
postmaster and a railroad agent for the new
creations. The station was naturally named
for the donor, hence the “Weaver Station”
heritage festival.
The Weaver Station Heritage and Music Festival is Sept. 12 from 9 AM to 9 PM at Weaver
Park, featuring tons of community talent
with everything from crafters and cooks to
some of the most popular musicians in Calhoun County. There’s also a 5K Walk-Run to
give visitors an excuse to get in some exercise while helping the youth football program generate funding, as well as activities
like the duck pond, where kids wade in and
grab rubber duckies for prizes.
Weaver residents came together in 1945 to
vote on incorporating the town with an official government, ending up with an unsurprisingly lopsided 60 to 4 vote in favor of becoming an official city.
“We want a celebration of our city,” said Aletha Young, a volunteer helping coordinate
the project. “We want to get all the people in
the community to work together as a group
to do things for our city.”
Weaver existed in some form or another
since the 1830s, when Simeon and Linzey
Weaver and others took up residence in the
former Cherokee land near McClellan. Their
son, David, donated land for the building of
a post office and a rail depot, later serving as
Now, 70 years later, the town is bringing in
local music favorites like Riley Green, Lindsey Hinkle and RPM to help commemorate
the anniversary, setting the stage for great
food and local art. Young says that there’s a
lot to choose from, with BBQ, Mexican and
more on the menu, and cool crafts like metalwork, crochet and even airplanes made
from beer cans all having made appearances at previous heritage festivals.
Though the city holds an annual heritage
day, the Weaver Station Her ]Y