- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Geographic Center of Georgia historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Twiggs County
Central places--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Twiggs County, Marion, 32.66237, -83.43712
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Church in Marion on Jeffersonville-Bullard Rd. .5 mi E. of I16
Text of marker: "GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF GEORGIA. One and one tenth mile south-southeast from this marker is the geographic center of the state. The center is defined as the balance point of a plane or thin sheet of a uniform thickness in the shape of the area. The central point is one-quarter mile south-southeast of the junction of Turvin and Savage Creeks in Twiggs County and about seventeen and one-half miles southeast of Macon. The Geologic Survey Branch of the Department of Natural Resources determined the central point to be at latitude 32° 38' 46" N., longitude 83° 25' 54" W. 143-11 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 1981" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_geographic-center-of-georgia
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_geographic-center-of-georgia
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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