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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 .
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.
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The chain was started in 1931 when Carl D. "Pat" Farnsworth bought the ice cream store in Orono, Maine, in which he had worked as a high-schooler. [1] In 1953, he added pizza to the menu, and it was such a hit that he changed Farnsworth's Cafe into a pizza parlor, giving it its current name. [2] It eventually grew to 13 locations, covering the ...
Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), American politician, banker, and businessman; Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose first name was Americus in Latin; Saint Emeric of Hungary (died 1031), also known as Saint Americus or Emeric, a Hungarian prince; Americus Symmes (1811–1896), son of John Cleves ...
In 1879, the Americus Recorder began as a tri-weekly publication owned by Merrel Callaway. The Americus Recorder was a competitor of the Sumter Republican newspaper at this time. A few years later, Calloway sold his interest in the Americus Recorder and the Americus Times was then officially established in 1890.
In 1964, Pat LaFrieda I and his son Pat LaFrieda II (known today as Pat Sr.) took full ownership over LaFrieda Meats and changed the name to Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors. As business grew, the shop changed locations several times (from West 14th Street, to Little West 12th Street, and then to Bleecker Street) but finally settled on Leroy Street ...
The Simpson Plantation, also known as Liberty Hall, is a historic plantation southeast of Americus, Georgia on South Lee Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980. [1] It is a two-story frame building 50 feet (15 m) by 36 feet (11 m) in plan, built c. 1861.