Lamar County

Lamar County is a Georgia historical marker in Georgia., Lamar County, dedicated 1955.

Located on Thomaston Road (Georgia Route 36) 0.1 miles north of Holmes Street in Barnesville, Georgia.

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Lamar County was created by the Georgia State Legislature on August 17, 1920. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a lawyer, colonel in the Confederate Army, US Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first officers of Lamar County included B.H. Hardy, Ordinary; S.J. Childers, Clerk of Court; Z.T. Elliott, Sheriff; E. Luther Butler, Tax Receiver; Gus Smith, Tax Collector; W. C. Jordan, Treasurer; B.K. Crouch, Coroner; Roger H. Taylor, Surveyor; J.F. Redding, Judge; Mrs. Mattie Barnes, School Superintendent; H.M. Johnson, E.O. Dobbs, and H. J. Kennedy, Solicitors.

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Historical maps covering this location

1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map VIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1924 · South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering the location of Lamar County, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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On the National Register nearby

Lamar County Courthouse130 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.