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Although Toomsboro was not for sale as the town's mayor explained, a large amount of rural land near the town was available for purchase. This inspired Renee Walters and Ashley Scott, a realtor from Stonecrest , to create the Freedom Georgia Initiative and propose purchasing the 96.71 acres (39.14 hectares) of land.
Jenkins County is a county located in the southeastern area of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,674. [1] The county seat is Millen. [2] Historic and bountiful Magnolia Springs State Park is located between Millen and Perkins.
Perkins (also Perkins Station) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Jenkins County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 91. [3] It lies a short distance east of U.S. Route 25, 7 miles (11 km) north of the city of Millen, the county seat of Jenkins County. [4]
The Georgia land lotteries were an early nineteenth century system of land redistribution in Georgia. ... land lots were 250 acres (1.0 km 2) and 490 acres (2.0 km 2).
The 1832 Land Lottery was the sixth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to appropriate Cherokee and Muscogee land to settlers. The 1832 lottery was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by acts of December 21, 1830
The act specified that approximately one third of the 160-acre (0.65 km 2) land districts to be distributed by lottery under the act of December 21, 1830 (the sixth land lottery), be designated as gold districts of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) each and to be distributed in a separate lottery. The drawings for the Gold Lottery of 1832 occurred between ...
A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is 40 acres (16 ha). In 1832 the smallest area of land that could be acquired was reduced to the 40-acre (16 ha) quarter-quarter section, and this size parcel became entrenched in American mythology.
Georgia has almost eight million acres (32,000 km 2) of prime farmland while over 60% of the land is made up of pine forests. Georgia has 70,150 miles (112,900 km) of streams and rivers, 425,000 acres (1,720 km 2) of lakes, and approximately 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of freshwater wetlands. Manganese, iron, copper, and other minerals make ...