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The U.S. state of Georgia is divided into 159 counties, the second-highest number after Texas, which has 254 counties.Under the Georgia State Constitution, all of its counties are granted home rule to deal with problems that are purely local in nature.
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
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.
Milton County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1857 (168 years ago) () to 1931 (94 years ago) (). It was created on December 18, 1857, from parts of northeastern Cobb, southeastern Cherokee, and southwestern Forsyth counties. The county was named for John Milton, Secretary of State of Georgia from 1777 to 1799. [1]
McDuffie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,632. [1] The county seat is Thomson. [2] The county was created on October 18, 1870 [3] and named after the South Carolina governor and senator George McDuffie.
Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 2002. vol 4 of comprehensive history of one county. Scott, Thomas Allan. Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origin of the Suburban South: A Twentieth Century History (2003). Werner, Randolph D. "The New South Creed and the Limits of Radicalism: Augusta, Georgia, before the 1890s."
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.
Wilkes County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 9,565. [ 1 ] The county seat is the city of Washington .