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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.
List of County Seats of Georgia [1] County County Seat Date Notes Coordinates Appling Created 1818: Holmesville: 1828: Holmesville was known as Appling Court House from 1828 until May 1831. Baxley: 1873: Established in 1870 as Station Number 7 of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
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.
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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.
Calvary is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Grady County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of 2020, its population was 129. [2] It is located along Georgia State Route 111, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Cairo, the Grady County seat. Tallahassee, Florida, is 23 miles (37 km) to the south.
Jones County is a county in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 28,347. [ 1 ] The county seat is Gray . [ 2 ]