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Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 16,230. It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area , a micropolitan area that covers Schley and Sumter counties [ 5 ] and had a combined population of 36,966 at the 2000 census .
Sumter County is a county located in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,616. [1] The county seat is Americus. [2] The county was created on December 26, 1831. Sumter County is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.
[2] Name on the Register Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Americus Historic District: Americus Historic District: January 1, 1976 (Irregular pattern along Lee St. with extensions to Dudley St., railroad tracks, Rees Park, and Glessner St.; also E. Church St. and Oak Grove Cemetery
"I've always known we wanted to do something with the place," says Jess McNeill, who is the sixth generation to live in the Americus, Georgia, farmhouse first purchased by his ancestors in 1853 ...
The Windsor Hotel, Ascend Hotel Collection at 125 West Lamar Street in Americus, Georgia was built in 1892 to attract winter visitors from the northeastern United States. The five-story Queen Anne hotel was designed by a Swedish-born architect, Gottfried Leonard Norrman, working in Atlanta. It featured a hundred rooms and a three-story atrium.
U.S. Route 280 (US 280) is a spur of U.S. Highway 80.It currently runs for 392 miles (631 km) from Blitchton, Georgia, at US 80 to Birmingham, Alabama at I-20/I-59.For much of its route, US 280 travels through rural areas and smaller cities in southern Georgia and east central Alabama.
Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room is a casual restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, US which offers a menu of Southern US home cooking. Situated in a historic house dated to 1870, it is a popular dining spot in the city. The restaurant was owned and managed by Sema Wilkes for 59 years, from 1943 until her death in 2002 at age 95. [1]
Souther Field [5] was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. [6] Its history begins in 1918, when on 19 January, the War Department leased 407 acres (165 ha) 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the center of Americus, Georgia from Sumter County for a primary training airfield and an aviation supply depot.