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When county seats have been moved, a new courthouse was typically constructed. Courthouses in Georgia have also been destroyed by disasters including fire, tornadoes, war, and arson. The most recent county courthouse to suffer a disaster was the burning of Hancock County, Georgia's courthouse in August 2014.
In Stephen King's The Green Mile, John Coffey is wrongfully arrested in the fictional Trapingus County, Georgia. John Birmingham includes a fictional Buttecracke (pronounced Beau-cray) County, Georgia, in his Dave vs. the Monsters series of novels. We Deserve Monuments, by Jas Hammonds, takes place in the fictional Bardell County, Georgia.
Waynesville was the county seat of Wayne County for several nonconsecutive periods in the mid-1800s; Three county seats have later become the county seats of other counties: Pond Town was the temporary county seat of Lee County, Georgia when the county was first established from Muscogee (Creek) Nation lands in 1826. The county was very large ...
The district's boundaries were redrawn following the 2010 census, which granted an additional congressional seat to Georgia. [5] In 2021, following the 2020 census, the 156th Georgia General Assembly passed new congressional maps signed by Governor Kemp, and redrew this district from 51% African American to 49% African American, beginning in ...
The Madison County Courthouse in Danielsville, Georgia, county seat of Madison County, Georgia, is a historic courthouse built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It has a cruciform plan, similar to that of the Twiggs County Courthouse (1902-04) and of the Clayton County Courthouse.
The Cook County Courthouse in Adel, Georgia is a building built in 1939. It was designed by Atlanta architect William J. J. Chase and was built by the Ray M. Lee Company. The Public Works Administration provided 45% of the funds. It is a two-story brick building with limestone in the Stripped Classical style.
Liberty County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population is 65,256. [1] The county seat is Hinesville. [2] Liberty County is part of the Hinesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, Georgia Combined Statistical Area.
Butts County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,434, [1] up from 23,655 in 2010. [2] The county seat is Jackson. [3] The county was created on December 24, 1825. Butts County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell MSA.