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Tomlinson Fort House Historical Marker
- Tomlinson Fort House State Historical
Marker
- Located at South Liberty and West Greene Streets
in Milledgeville, Ga.
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TOMLINSON FORT HOUSE
At this site lived Tomlinson Fort
(1787-1859). A leader of the Union Party, he studied medicine
and wrote a widely used book on medical practice. A captain in
the War of 1812, he served in the Georgia legislature and the
U.S. Congress, and on the board of governors of the University
of Georgia. He founded the Federal Union in 1830 and was
president of the Central Bank of Georgia. As early as 1822 he
advocated replacing the Poor School Fund with a public school
system. He was instrumental in establishing at Milledgeville
in 1837 the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, now the largest state institution
in Georgia.
005-25 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1961
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