Spalding Grays
The Spalding Grays, as Co. D. 2nd Batt. Inf., was the first military unit from Spalding County to be mustered into the Confederate  Army. It was followed by 8 regular and several militia companies. The Spalding Grays have continued through the years as a unit of  the Ga. Nat. Guard, serving in war and peace, military and civil emergencies. Today it is Co. C., 48th Reconnaissance Batt., 48th Armored Div., Ga. Nat. Guard, whose headquarters are in this modern armory, completed in 1956. The only earlier military company from the  county was the Fannin Avengers which served in the Mexican War and has long since passed from existence.
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Georgia Historical Commission
1956

Founding of Griffin
From a stump near the town spring, now covered by the embankment of the railroad, on June 8, 1840, Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin sold  lots to the highest bidder, thus establishing the City of Griffin. The first lot was sold to William Leake. Gen. Griffin, an early advocate  of the railroad and one of the wealthiest men in Middle Georgia, was the first president of the Monroe Railroad and Banking Co. A General in the Georgia Militia, he fought in the Indian war known as the Florida Campaign and in the wars against the Creeks. He served in the State Legislature in 1829 and 1830.
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