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JEFFERSON COUNTY GA
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Jefferson County, originally part of Burke and Warren counties, was created
in 1796 and named for Thomas Jefferson. Wadley was originally known as
"Shakerag." The name was changed to Wadley in the 1870s in honor of the
president of the Central of Georgia Railway. Louisville, the county seat, was
the third capital of Georgia. Unlike its predecessors, Savannah and Augusta, it
was founded specifically as the permanent state capital, with the first planned
capitol building, which was completed in 1796. In recognition of French support
during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), Georgia legislators named the town for
Louis XVI, king of France (who had been executed three years earlier). The
original design of Louisville was based on the squares of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
During the brief period when Louisville was the state
capital (1796-1806), the papers connected with the Yazoo land fraud were
publicly burned and the Great Seal of Georgia was adopted (1799). According to
the 1820 census, the population of Jefferson County then included 3,932 free
whites and 3,094 enslaved people. In 1807 Georgia government moved to its fourth
capital, farther west in Baldwin County. The Jefferson County Courthouse (1904),
a Neoclassical building designed by W . F. Denny, sits on the site of the
original capitol.
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