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Watkinsville is the largest city and county seat of Oconee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a total population of 2,896. It served as the seat of Clarke County until 1872 when the county seat of that county was moved to Athens , a move which ultimately led to the creation of Oconee County in 1875.
James Dixon Robinson III was born to a wealthy family in Atlanta on November 19, 1935. [2] He was educated at the Woodberry Forest School and attended Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Management where civil rights icon Blake Van Leer was president. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1957 [3] [4] where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.
Oconee County was created from the southwestern part of Clarke County in 1875 by the Georgia General Assembly. The new county was created to satisfy southwestern Clarke County residents' demand for their own county after the county seat was moved from Watkinsville to Athens by the General Assembly in 1872. It is named for the river flowing ...
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A two-vehicle crash in Oconee County late Thursday claimed the life of a Watkinsville woman and ... was killed in the collision which was reported at about 6:55 p.m. on Georgia Highway 53 at Snows ...
James Robinson aka "Gentleman Jim," was born free and landed. He also received an education from the same private tutor that taught his half sister Judith Carter. [2] [4] The homestead he built in Bull Run couldn't have been more prominent at the outset of the Civil War, during which two major battles were fought in his front yard.
Skiff worked in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1840 to 1849, then moved to Savannah, Georgia, from 1850 to 1865, then back to Northampton, Massachusetts from 1865 to 1875.
James William "Jim" Robinson Jr. (August 30, 1940 – April 11, 1966) was an American soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. Robinson earned the award while serving with the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He was a Sergeant in the infantry when he was killed under heroic circumstances on April 11, 1966, at age 25.