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Following this, the Interior Court may have designated Summerville as the county seat. In any case, on December 21, 1839, the General Assembly formally incorporated Summerville and designated it as the permanent county seat. Apart from its central location, the primary reason for selecting this site was the presence of a significant spring.
Chattooga County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 24,965. [ 1 ] The county seat is Summerville . [ 2 ]
J.R. Dick Dowdy Park, or Dowdy Park as the locals know it, is a very active area in the community of Summerville, Georgia, located on highway 27 in Summerville. The park plays host to many events throughout the year in this small town in Northwest Georgia. Dowdy Park holds many historical stories and facts, time periods ranging from the 19th ...
The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280 .
Charles Jones Jenkins (1805–1883), Supreme Court of Georgia Justice, Governor of Georgia, candidate for Vice President and for President of the United States; John Pendleton King (1799–1888), US Senator; Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857–1916), Associate Justice in the US Supreme Court
Judge Began active service Ended active service Term as chief justice Eugenius Aristides Nisbet: 1845: 1853: Joseph Henry Lumpkin: 1845: 1867: 1863–1867 Hiram B. Warner
The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [2] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280 .
In 1994, while Burkhalter was campaign chairman for then-Fulton County, Georgia, Commission Chairman Mitch Skandalakis, he was involved in creating campaign fliers which depicted Gordon Joyner, an African-American politician running for a seat on the county commission, in a racist manner: Joyner's features were darkened, and he was photoshopped to have a large Afro, an enlarged lip, and a ...