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FIRST COUNTY SEAT
Between 1765 and 1770 a group of
settlers, mostly from North Carolina, settled and received grants
for land in the vicinity of what is now Rockyford.
Among these first settlers were,
Benjamin Lanier, Lemuel Lanier, Valentine Hollingsworth, Francis
Jones, Thomas Mills, Anthony Bonnell, Abraham Mincey, Robert
Dickson and Michael Dickson.
The first county seat of Screven
County was established here on Dec. 14, 1793, and the home of
Benjamin Lanier, across Mile Branch from this marker, was the
first Court House.
124-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1953
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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