Jefferson Co GA is available for ADOPTION
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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.