- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Emanuel County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-03-10
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Emanuel County, 32.58976, -82.30171
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Emanuel County, Georgia. Emanuel County, in southeast Georgia's wiregrass region, is the state's thirty-ninth county. It was carved from Bulloch and Montgomery counties in 1812 and named for David Emanuel, a veteran of the Revolutionary War (1775-83) who served as governor of the state in 1801. Although portions of Emanuel County were later annexed by five other counties, Johnson (1858), Jenkins (1905), Toombs (1905), Candler (1914), and Treutlen (1918), its remaining 686 square miles make it the seventh largest in area of Georgia's counties.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/emanuel-county/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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