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Lake Jodeco

Lake in Piedmont near Stockbridge, GA

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Lake Jodeco is a private 70 acre man-made lake in Clayton County, Georgia east of Jonesboro, Georgia. The area now known as Lake Jodeco was once inhabited by the Creek Indians, and later a small settlement called Mayday existed in this area. Prior to the end of World War II, the Lake Jodeco area was rural farm land connected to the City of Jonesboro by a one-car dirt road. In the lowland of this farming area was a small mill pond with a crude earthen dam. Dr. Walter Spivey (who was born on a farm in North Carolina and attended what is now Duke University) was a practicing dentist in Atlanta. One of Dr. Spivey’s patients, the Sheriff of Clayton County, Lloyd Dixon (brother of Jonesboro’s late Mayor Hugh Dixon) sold Dr. and Mrs. Spivey 800 acres just five miles east of Jonesboro which they…

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