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Other Information:
It is not clear what served as courthouse for the first five
years of Jenkins County's existence, but likely it was rented
office space. Construction of the county's current courthouse
was completed in 1910.
County Courthouse Historical
Marker: Click
here
County History: Jenkins County was created on Aug. 17,
1905 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws 1905, p. 57).
Formed from portions of Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel, and Screven
counties, Jenkins County's original boundaries were specified
as:
Beginning at a point in Burke county in the middle of the
railroad track one mile west of the public road which crosses
the Central of Georgia railway track at the station of Herndon,
and running thence in a straight line to a point one-quarter
(?) of a mile west and one-quarter (?) of a mile north of the
Henry Wilkes-Jones (now occupied by Robert Law) dwelling house;
thence in a straight line to the center of the crossing of
the Savannah and Louisville and Waynesboro and Herndon public
roads; thence in a straight line to a point one mile north
of Perkins station on the Augusta and Savannah railroad; from
thence in a straight line to the confluence of the streams
that form Beaver Dam creek; from thence down said creek to
where it crosses from Burke into Screven county; from thence
in a straight line to the Ogeechee river, said line passing
one and a half miles by the railroad track below the railroad
depot at Scarboro, a station on the Central of Georgia railway
in Screven county; thence down the Ogeechee river to a point
one hundred (100) feet above Capps incorporated bridge; from
thence in a straight line to the northwest corner of Lockhart
(46th district line), Bulloch county; from thence a straight
line to Johnson's crossing on the Millen and Southwest railroad
in Emanuel county, and from thence a straight line to the starting
point in Burke county.
On Aug. 17, 1906, the General Assembly amended the 1905 act
to correct "a manifest error in the description of the boundary
between Jenkins, Bulloch and Emanuel counties . . ." (Ga.
Law. 1906, p. 83). According to the 1906 amendment:
That, beginning in the first section of said Act in the
twenty-fourth line thereof after the words "Capp's incorporated
bridge," the language, "from thence in a straight line to the
northwest corner of Lockhart (46th district), Bulloch county;
from thence in a straight line to Johnson's crossing on the
Millen and Southwestern Railroad in Emanuel county," be stricken
for the reason it was not the intention of the Legislature
to use said language, and substitute in lieu thereof the line
as agreed on between the counties at interest, "from thence
a straight line to a dead pine tree on the Moore public road,
near the dwelling-house of L. C. Lanier; from thence in a straight
line to Johnson's crossing on the Millen and Southwestern Railroad
in Emanuel county."
Georgia's 140th county was named for former governor Charles
Jenkins (1805-1883), who served from 1865-1868.
County Seat: The 1905 act creating Jenkins County designated
Millen as county seat. Millen originated as a railroad station
originally named "Seventy Nine," as it was 79 miles
from Savannah.
Maps
Size of County (Total
Area): 352.5 square miles
County Rank in Total
Area: 78th out of 159
Population:
Jenkins County
City of Millen
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