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Great Seal of Georgia Historical Marker
- Great Seal of Georgia State Historical
Marker
- Located in front of the old Baldwin County Courthouse
in Milledgeville, Ga.
(Text)
THE GREAT SEAL OF GEORGIA
When Federal troops entered Milledgeville
in November, 1864, Georgia Secretary of State Nathan C. Barnett
hid the Great Seal under a house and the legislative minutes
in a pig pen 30 yards east of this point. Later they were returned
to the Statehouse.
Again in 1868 Governor Charles
J. Jenkins (Governor, 1865-1868) removed the Great Seal to thwart
state fund payments which had been ordered by the United States
military authority which inaugurated Georgia's carpetbag regime.
Federal General Meade replaced Governor Jenkins with United States
General Thomas H. Ruger of Wisconsin (who served only part of
the year 1868), the last of the Milledgeville governors. With
the return of home rule in 1872 the Great Seal was returned to
the new capitol in Atlanta.
005-20 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1960
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