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Webster County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 16, 1853, as Kinchafoonee County. [3] A subsequent legislative act on February 21, 1856, changed the name to Webster. [ 3 ]
According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1] Georgia is divided into 159 counties and contains 535 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, consolidated city-counties, and ...
Preston is located at (32.060789, -84.538287 [5]U.S. Route 280, as well as Georgia State Routes 41 and 153, are the main highways through the community.U.S. Route 280 runs from east to west as Hamilton Street, leading east 9 mi (14 km) to Plains and west 9 mi (14 km) to Richland.
A few counties in Georgia have changed their names. Jasper County was originally named "Randolph County". Later, the present-day Randolph County was founded. Webster County was once named "Kinchafoonee County", and Bartow County was originally named "Cass County".
A county budget meeting in Chattooga County, Ga., took a turn on Friday when the wife of a commissioner stormed in and dumped a soda on a reporter’s head.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Chatham County Board of Commissioners District 2 Malinda Scott Hodge (Democrat) Hodge won the District 2 seat in 2023's special election, held to complete the term of the late Larry "Gator" Rivers.
The wooden jail (pictured at left) was the first jail built for the county between 1855 and 1856. It housed prisoners until the brick jail (right) was constructed in 1910. The wooden jail that you see is the one that housed Susan Eberhart, the second and last woman hanged in the State of Georgia, from May 10, 1872 until her hanging May 2, 1873