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Towns County State Historical Marker
Towns County State Historical
Marker
Located at the Towns County Courthouse, Hiawassee,
Ga.
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(Text)
TOWNS COUNTY
Towns County was created
by Act of March 6, 1856 from Rabun and Union Counties. It was
named for George Washington Towns, Governor of Georgia from 1847-1851.
Gov. Towns was born in Wilkes County, May 4, 1801, of a Virginia
family. Self-educated, he was a merchant, lawyer, legislator,
state senator, Congressman. He died in 1854. First officers of
towns County, commissioned April 21, 1856, were: Andrew I. Burch,
Sheriff; Martin L. Burch, Clerk Superior Court; James H. Moore,
Clerk Inferior Court; Milton Brown, Tax Receiver; George M. Denton,
Tax Collector; Robert S. Patton, Coroner; James Alston, Surveyor;
John W. Holmes, Ordinary.
139-2 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
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