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[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
The historic Rees Park High School sustained moderate damage but was not in use. Americus churches were not spared, as ten of them were damaged, including The Old Shady Grove Church. Parks were badly affected as well. Rees Park lost 25 trees and nearby Myers Park lost 39. [55] The toll for damage in the county amounted to $110 million.
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 .
Shirley Green-Reese is a civil rights activist, professor, and a researcher who rose to prominence as one of the 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls. She was one of the fourteen African American girls who were imprisoned during the Civil Rights Movement in Dawson, Georgia and Leesburg, Georgia. [1] Green-Reese was a councilwoman in Americus, Georgia. [2]
Sumter County was established by an act of the state legislature on December 26, 1831, four years after the Creek Indians were forced from the region when the state acquired the territory from them in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs.
The Americus micropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Georgia, anchored by the city of Americus. At the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 36,966 (though a July 1, 2009, estimate placed the population at 36,409). [1]
The park aims to make the area more walkable and address the division between communities separated by a railway. The new shared space will link Overtown to downtown Miami and the Omni district.
Souther Field is a former military airfield, located 3.7 miles (6.0 km) Northeast of Americus, Georgia. It was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. [1] After World War II, the property was sold to the city of Americus.