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McRae was a city in and the county seat [3] of Telfair County, Georgia, United States. It was designated as the seat in 1871, after being established the previous year as a station on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Upon the city's merger with adjacent Helena in 2015, the new county seat is the combined city of McRae-Helena.
McRae–Helena is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, formed on January 1, 2015, by the merger of the two cities of McRae and Helena. McRae–Helena is the county seat of Telfair County. It is the largest city in Telfair County, with a population of 6,253 in 2020. [2] This includes the population held as inmates at McRae Correctional Institution.
Telfair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,477. [1] The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena.
South Georgia College, also referred to as Old South Georgia College [1] was a Methodist affiliated school in McRae, Georgia.It opened in 1892. The school closed in 1928. The campus was sold to the local school district. campus and was a high school until the 1960s when it became a primary school.
Helena was a city in Telfair and Wheeler counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 2,883 at the 2010 census, up from 2,307 in 2000 and 1,256 in 1990. The population increase accompanied establishment of the McRae Correctional Institution, which provided new jobs. The prison population is counted as well.
The Max and Emma Sue McRae House in McRae, Georgia is a Classical Revival-style house built in 1897 which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in anticipation of the wedding of Max McRae (d.1951) [note 1] and Emma Sue Griffith (1875-1972). The couple married in 1898 and moved into the home.
Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...
Little Ocmulgee State Park & Lodge is a 1,360-acre (550 ha) Georgia state park located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of McRae-Helena on the Little Ocmulgee River. Part of the park was initially built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, around the natural diversion of the Little Ocmulgee into a lake.