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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.
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
Wilkes County, named for British politician and supporter of American independence, John Wilkes, is considered Georgia's first county established by European Americans; it was the first of eight original counties created in the first state constitution on February 5, 1777. The other seven counties were organized from existing colonial parishes.
The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions. The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the ...
Thomas County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 23, 1825, from portions of Decatur and Irwin Counties. [3] Colquitt (1856), Brooks (1858), and Grady (1905) Counties all were formed partially from lands within Thomas County's original borders.
Randolph County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia and is considered part of the Black Belt, historically an area of plantations. As of the 2020 census , the population was 6,425, [ 1 ] roughly one-third of its peak population in 1910, when there were numerous agricultural workers.
English: This is a locator map showing Towns County in Georgia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Meriwether County is a county in the West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,613. [2] [1] The county seat is Greenville, [3] home of the Meriwether County Courthouse. The county was formed on December 14, 1827, as the 73rd county in Georgia.