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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.
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
Evans is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Columbia County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Augusta and is part of the Augusta metropolitan area . The population was 29,011 at the 2010 census, [ 4 ] up from 17,727 at the 2000 census.
Georgia State Route 200 also passes through the center of town, leading east 24 miles (39 km) to Newton and northwest 15 miles (24 km) to Blakely, the Early County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau , Damascus has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.6 km 2 ), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 0.48%, is water.
Claxton is located at the center of Evans County at (32.160932, -81.908674 It is bordered to the west by the city of Hagan.U.S. Routes 280 and 301 intersect in the center of town; US 280 leads east 52 miles (84 km) to Savannah and west 36 miles (58 km) to Vidalia, while US 301 leads north 22 miles (35 km) to Statesboro and south 48 miles (77 km) to Jesup.
The last site along the road within the county is the Towns Bluff Park & Heritage Center, a county park within the Bullard Creek Wildlife Management Area. [7] US 221/SR 135 crosses the Jeff Davis-Montgomery County Line at the foot of the Neal Lee Gillis Memorial Bridge, a long two-lane causeway over the Altamaha River .
The Quitman Historic District is a 417-acre (169 ha) historic district located in Quitman, Georgia.It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]The district contains late 19th and early 20th century brick buildings in the commercial district and mainly wood-frame homes from various periods and styles in the residential 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.