Raft Pilot, Baxley, Appling County, GA
 
Dr. Dell Pressley of Georgia State University created "Raft Project" which built a timber raft and drifted it to Darian, Georgia, retracting the way hundreds of rafts had gone before, down the Odmulgee River to the Altamaha River in Darian.

90 year old Raft Pilot, Bill Dean successfully piloted the raft to Darian, Georgia on April 3, 1982.

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