Storefront windows built for an 1885 rail schedule
Fortson took its name in 1885, when the Columbus and Rome Railroad built a station on land the Almond-Fortson family had settled in the 1830s. Thomas Willis Fortson's general store and post office moved into a brick building beside the tracks in 1904, with storefront-style windows built for display and daylight rather than energy efficiency.
What mixed rail-era window stock means for replacement
Fortson's structures span 1830s wood-frame settlement windows, 1885 rail-boom construction, and the 1904 brick storefront's larger display openings — three different window profiles within the same small community. A replacement project should treat each building's era separately rather than assume a single standard fits all of Fortson.
Window paths for a Fortson property
Before connecting you about a Fortson window project
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Fortson's rail-era windows, 15 miles from Columbus's mill windows
Fortson sits roughly 15 miles northeast of Columbus, close enough that its 1885 rail-boom window stock followed the same non-standardized sizing conventions as the mill buildings going up in Columbus around the same decades.