Seminole County State Historical Marker

Located at the Seminole County Courthouse, Donalsonville, Ga.

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SEMINOLE COUNTY

 

This county, created by Act of the Legislature

July 8, 1920, is named for the Seminole

Indians. Members of the Creek Confederacy,

the Seminoles (meaning "separatist") left the

main body in Georgia and settled in Florida.

After two bloody wars in 1817-'18 and 1835-'42,

under Osceola, the majority were moved to

western reservations but several hundred

escaped to the Everglades where the tribe

still dwells. Among the first County Officers

were: Sheriff J.M. Richardson, Clerk of

Superior Court C.L. Reynolds, Ordinary J.H.

Goodwin, Tax Collector W.O. Hodges, Treasurer

R.T. Bolton, Coroner Jessie E. Yates and Sur-

veyor W.H. Hickson.

 

125-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

Photo: Keith Hair

© Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia

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