Jacksonboro State Historical Marker
Located on US 301 just south of intersection
with Ga. 24, 5 miles north of Sylvania, Ga.
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- JACKSONBORO
The establishment of Jacksonboro
as the county seat of Screven County was authorized by an Act
of the General Assembly, Feb. 1, 1797.
James H. Rutherford, Francis Jones,
Martin Martin, Anthony Bonnell, Sr., and Stephen Pearce were
appointed Commissioners to "purchase or otherwise procure
not less than five acres nor more than fifty acres and to let
the building of a court house and jail." This marker centers
the 50 acres purchased from Solomon Gross on April 29th, 1797.
The town was officially incorporated
as "The Town of Jacksonborough" by the General Assembly,
Feb. 16, 1799. It was named for the then Governor of Georgia,
General James Jackson. For 50 years it was a thriving business
center for a large rural area of Georgia.
It remained the county seat until
Dec. 14, 1847, at which time the seat of government was moved
to Sylvania. Jacksonboro then rapidly became one of the many
ghost towns of Georgia's early history.
- 124-8 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1952
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© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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