Hats, Hats, Hats: Fashionable Features of the Past

Rebekah Sheats Contributor On August 6, 1859, the Monticello business of Johnson, McCann & Cuthbert entered into business with Daniel B. Bird, a longstanding member of the Jefferson County community. To mark the change in leadership, the firm altered its name to Johnson, Bird & Company. It was one of many businesses expanding in the closing years of the 1850s. The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad had almost completed its new line into Monticello, and it was no secret that rail traffic