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Home of Governor E.D. Rivers GHS Historical Marker
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- Home of Governor E.D. Rivers GHS
Historical Marker
- Located at
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- Home of Governor E.D.
Rivers
- (1895-1967)
Eurith Dickinson Rivers was governor
of Georgia from 1937 to 1941. He actively supported President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Program. Rivers' innovative
leadership produce Georgia's first Department of Public Welfare,
free school books, the State Highway Patrol, and modernization
of the state highway system. Born in Arkansas, Rivers married
Lucile Lashley in 1914 and moved with his family to Milltown
(later Lakeland) in 1920 to practice law. He is buried in Lakeland.
Built in 1940 on the shores of Banks lake, the ranch style house,
designed by Frank Byrd, was relocated to this site in the early
1980s.
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- Erected by The
Georgia Historical Society, LILA, Inc.,
- Lanier County Lions
Club, Farmers and Merchants Bank,
- and Lakeland-Lanier
Chamber of Commerce
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