Pierce County State Historical Marker

Located at the Pierce County Courthouse, Blackshear, Ga.

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PIERCE COUNTY

 

This County, created by Act of the Legislature

December 18, 1857, is named for Franklin

Pierce, New Hampshire Democrat and fourteenth

President of the United States, 1853 to '57.

He was a General in the Mexican War. Black-

shear, incorporated December 16, 1859, is named

for General David Blackshear, noted Georgia

Indian fighter. Among the first County

Officers were: Sheriff John Donalson, Clerk

of Superior and Inferior Courts David Rowell,

Ordinary Aaron Dowling, Tax Receiver John

Sugg, Tax Collector Edmund Thomas, Coroner

James Thomas and Surveyor James E. Blitch.

 

113-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

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