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The Downtown Douglas Historic District is located in Douglas, Georgia and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is roughly bounded by Jackson Street, Pearl Avenue, Cherry Street, and the Georgia-Florida Railroad .
Douglas County Courthouse: Douglas County Courthouse: October 24, 2002 : 6754 W. Broad St. Douglasville: 5: Douglasville Commercial Historic District: Douglasville Commercial Historic District: July 24, 1989
Douglas is a city in Coffee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 11,722. Douglas is the county seat of Coffee County [ 4 ] and the core city of the Douglas micropolitan statistical area , which had a population of 50,731 as of the 2010 census.
General Coffee State Park is a 1,511-acre (6.11 km 2) Georgia state park located near Douglas. The park is named after politician, farmer, and military leader General John E. Coffee. [1] The park is host to many rare and endangered species, especially in the cypress swamps through which the Seventeen Mile River winds. [2]
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 as a cemetery for African Americans [2] in the 216th general militia district, Athens, Georgia area. [3] Nine acres in size, it contains an estimated 3,500, mostly unmarked, graves.
The county was created during Reconstruction after the American Civil War.The Georgia General Assembly named it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass but later changed the spelling to instead credit former Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas as its namesake, [3] an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.
During 1819 the first Sabbath School (later Hebron Academy) at Hebron, and perhaps the first one in upper Georgia, was organized and put into operation by licentiate John Harrison, of Jackson County, Georgia. The plan of the school was drawn up by Mr. Harrison. It became the model for many other churches.
The early history of Douglas First United Methodist Church was published in A Centennial History by Elizabeth Lott and others in 1988. In May 2023, the church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church's South Georgia Conference and joined the Global Methodist Church. [1]