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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
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 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.
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).
Souther Field [5] was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. [6] Its history begins in 1918, when on 19 January, the War Department leased 407 acres (165 ha) 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the center of Americus, Georgia from Sumter County for a primary training airfield and an aviation supply depot.
The county was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 22, 1857, and is named for William Schley, United States Representative and thirty-sixth governor of Georgia.
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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.