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Creation Date
9-4-2011
Description
Dodge County Marker, Eastman, GA.
This marker is located at the courthouse in Eastman, Dodge County, Georgia. I t was placed by the Georgia Historical Commission in 1954.
The text reads as :
" This County created by Act of the Legislature Oct. 26, 1870, is named for William E. Dodge, a New York lumberman who owned large areas of the forest lands and who persuaded Congress to remove taxation from ´the great staple of our state.´ He built and gave to the new county its first Courthouse, which was replaced in 1908. The first County Officers included: Superior Court Judge J.R. Alexander, Clerk of Superior Court Ruben A. Harrell, Sheriff Jordan Brown, Tax Collector T.P. Willcox, Tax Receiver Jno. W. Bohannon and Ordinary S.W. Burch. "
GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954
Latitude, Longitude
32.20075833, -83.17592222
Recommended Citation
George Lansing Taylor, Jr. "Dodge County Marker, Eastman, GA." (2011). Image Collection. University of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and Archives. UNF Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/3069/
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