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Wilcox County, Georgia
| December 22, 1857 |
Wilcox County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
| September 15, 1883 |
Abbeville, county seat of Wilcox County, is incorporated |
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
| May 12, 1903 |
Wilcox County Courthouse is completed, replacing the original 1858 courthouse. The new courthouse was designed by Frank Pierce Milburn |
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
| April 23, 1971 |
Two waves of storms, which included tornadoes that registered F3 on the Fujita-Pearson scale, swept through Georgia destroying more than a million dollars in property, killing one person and injuring 23. Counties affected were Polk, Gwinnett, Douglas, Dekalb, Carroll, Screven, Paulding, Randolph, Houstoun, Troup, Macon, Dooly, Sumter, Chatham, Lanier, Tattnall, and Wilcox.
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Wilcox County, Georgia |
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Douglas County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
Name derivation: Named in honor of Mark Wilcox, who served in the state legislature and founded the state supreme court
Acquisition: Creek cession of Aug. 9, 1814 and Jan. 22, 1818
Taken from: Dooly County, Irwin County and Pulaski County
Counties created from: Ben Hill County, Turner County
Cities: Abbeville (county seat), Pineview, Pitts and Rochelle
Web sites:National Register of Historic Places in Wilcox County, Georgia
Wilcox County, Georgia, links
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