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Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia, United States. [4] The population was 4,235 in 2020. The city's name was originally spelled Jonesborough .
flamingo. Website. Jonesboro High School. Jonesboro High School is a four-year public high school located in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States. The school is part of the Clayton County School District, and is located at 7728 Mt. Zion Boulevard. The school's teams are known as the Cardinals, and the school colors are red, white, and black. [2]
Clayton County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 297,595 by the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] The county seat is Jonesboro. [2] Clayton County is one of the core counties of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and it is the fifth most-populous county in the state.
Rural Home was built in the late 1820s or early 1830s on land that had been taken from the Muscogee people due to the Indian Removal Act. [1] The land, located across the Flint River about six miles east of Fayetteville and about five miles southeast of Jonesboro, was first purchased by John Ward, who likely never lived there. [1]
The Battle of Jonesborough (August 31–September 1, 1864) was fought between Union Army forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces under William J. Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. On the first day, on orders from Army of Tennessee commander John Bell Hood, Hardee's troops attacked the Federals ...
Flint River at Sprewell Bluff Park. The Flint River is a 344-mile-long (554 km) [1] river in the U.S. state of Georgia. The river drains 8,460 square miles (21,900 km 2) of western Georgia, flowing south from the upper Piedmont region south of Atlanta to the wetlands of the Gulf Coastal Plain in the southwestern corner of the state.
Southern Crescent Technical College. Southern Crescent Technical College is a public community college with two main campuses in Georgia, one in Griffin and one in Thomaston. The McDonough campus of the Henry County Center has the second-largest student enrollment behind the Griffin campus. It also has centers in Jackson, Monticello and Butler.
Website. sumtercountyga.us. Sumter County is a county located in the west- central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,616. [1] The county seat is Americus. [2] The county was created on December 26, 1831. Sumter County is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.