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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.
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.
Shifting county lines changing the center of population; A few county seats have regained their position of county seat after losing it: Morgan was the county seat of Calhoun County from 1856 to 1923; it was re-designated the county seat in 1929; Stark(s)ville was the county seat of Lee County from 1832 to 1854, and then again from 1856 to 1872
The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records. The office has had a four-year term since 1946. [1] Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election. [1]
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 ...
State Route 2 (SR 2) is a 165-mile-long (266 km) east-west State highway in the far North-northern part of Georgia.The highway serves southern suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee, as well as much of the mountains in the northern part of the state.
Columbia County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 156,010. [2] The legal county seat is Appling, [3] but the de facto seat of county government is Evans. [1] Columbia County is included in the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metropolitan statistical area.
The city's name most likely is a transfer from Hoboken, New Jersey. [4] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place as the City of Hoboken in 1920. [5] Hoboken served as the first county seat of Brantley County from the county's formation in 1920 until 1923 when the seat was transferred to Nahunta.