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Sue,
Are you aware that the Nature Conservancy in Georgia is preserving about 101 acres of land that is named "Heggie's Rock?" I contacted them the other day about the origin of the name and have pasted their reply below for you to read.
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Dear Dr. Heggie,
Here is the story we usually cite, although I don't have a reference for this. It is something I've cut-and-pasted for years from an early report written when the preserve was first protected.
In 1769, George Roseborough acquired Heggie’s Rock from the English government; the land surrounding the rock was farmed. Roseborough’s widow sold the land around 1785 to Isaac Ramsey, who built a grist mill along nearby Little Kiokee Creek. After his death, the land was left to his son John, who in turn left it to his daughter Martha in 1808. Martha married Archibald Heggie (or Haga), who ran the grist mill for many years. When he died in 1840, the land was left to his children. The outcrop was used by his descendents and others as a site for picnics and excursions until purchased in the early 1950s by Weston and Brooker, a granite company from Lexington County, South Carolina. In 1970, Superior Stone Company, a division of Martin-Marietta, bought the land from Weston and Brooker. Neither company quarried the rock.
In 1981, the head of a local lumber company, Robert Pollard, Sr., purchased the land, primarily to see it preserved. In 1983, TNC bought most of Heggie’s Rock from Pollard Lumber Company (94.86 acres, plus a 1.69-acre right-of-way easement), and Lynn Pollard Battle (6.23 acres).
Hope this answers your question.
Yours,
Malcolm Hodges
Conservation Ecologist
The Nature Conservancy
Georgia Chapter
1330 West Peachtree Street, Suite 410
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
work: 404-253-7211
cell: 404-473-0441
fax: 404-873-6984
website: www.nature.org/georgia/
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