Saunder's Store State Historical Marker

Saunder's State Historical Marker

Located on the Washington County Courthouse Square, Sandersville, Ga.

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SAUNDER'S STORE

The present site of the Sandersville Drug

Company was the location of Mr. M. Saunder's

store at the crossing of roads. On Dec. 19,

1793, the Legislature of Georgia authorized

that a central place for a county site be

chosen for Washington County. In 1796, Mr.

Saunders donated a part of his plantation

for this purpose and in his honor the town

was called Saundersville, later contracted

to Sandersville.

 

On November 27, 1812, the town was incorpo-

rated by an Act of the Georgia Legislature.

Here also was a relay station on the stage-

coach road from Louisville to the new Capitol

in Milledgeville.

150-7 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

Photo: Ed Jackson

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