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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
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."
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]
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.
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.
Courthouse in 1980 Location in Georgia 1895 map. Campbell County was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1828 (197 years ago) () to 1931 (94 years ago) ().It was created by the state legislature on December 20, 1828, from land taken from Fayette, Coweta, and Carroll counties, and from the half of DeKalb County which became Fulton County soon afterward.
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]