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Fort Gaines, Georgia. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Clay. Associated ZIP codes: 39851.
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Mr. Samie Louis Mincey was born October 3, 1942, in Groveland, Georgia, the beloved son of Sam Mincey and Lillie (Badger) Mincey. Samie, age 83, of Mt. Morri...
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Georgia coach Kirby Smart, mid-Gator domination. (Jason Getz/AJC)As a general rule, I encourage agnosticism when it comes to early rankings from the College...
The Lee County Leadership Committee is inviting area non-profit organizations to submit proposals for projects that will affect positive change in Lee County.
App State fell 19-3 to Georgia Southern in a Sun Belt East Division clash, with the Eagles controlling possession and scoring through efficient long drives a...
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Fort Gaines is in Clay County, Georgia.
Region: South Georgia
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Georgia coach Kirby Smart, mid-Gator domination. (Jason Getz/AJC)As a general rule, I encourage agnosticism when it comes to early rankings from the College...
The Lee County Leadership Committee is inviting area non-profit organizations to submit proposals for projects that will affect positive change in Lee County.
App State fell 19-3 to Georgia Southern in a Sun Belt East Division clash, with the Eagles controlling possession and scoring through efficient long drives a...
Fort Gaines, the seat of Clay County, grew from a frontier fort on the Chattahoochee River. The Treaty of Fort Jackson of August 1814, signed by Andrew Jackson and the Creek leaders Big Warrior and Little Prince, ceded about 23 million acres and set a boundary running east from the mouth of Cemochechobee Creek just south of here. A military post was established on the river in 1814 to patrol this buffer against the British and hostile Creeks, and the town, named for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, dates its founding to 1816, when Gaines arrived with the 4th U.S. Infantry.
Fort Gaines prospered on riverboat trade, and by 1840 it had the Chattahoochee Female College and the Independent College for Young Men, boarding schools whose setting one writer compared favorably with Sparta, Georgia. In May 1836, during the Creek uprising, the 88th Regiment of the Georgia Militia built a small fort here as the steamer Georgian arrived crowded with women and children fleeing the attack at Roanoke upriver; the uprising was put down before fighting reached the town. When Clay County was formed in 1854, Fort Gaines became its seat. Sources The Historical Marker Database: 1814 Boundary / Founding of Fort Gaines; The 1836 Fort (Historic Chattahoochee Commission) Wikipedia: Fort Gaines, Georgia
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