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First County Seat

Screven County · dedicated 1953 · At the intersection of Scarboro Highway (State Highway 17) and Rocky Ford Road, on the left when traveling north on Scarboro Highway in Rocky Ford.

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Between 1765 and 1770 a group of settlers, mostly from North Carolina, settled and received grants for land in the vicinity of what is now Rockyford. Among these first settlers were, Benjamin Lanier, Lemuel Lanier, Valentine Hollingsworth, Francis Jones, Thomas Mills, Anthony Bonnell, Abraham Mincey, Robert Dickson and Michael Dickson. The first county seat of Screven County was established here on Dec. 14, 1793, and the home of Benjamin Lanier, across Mile Branch from this marker, was the first Court House.

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