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Spalding County

Spalding County · dedicated 1956 · At the intersection of 6th Street and East Bank Street, on the right when traveling south on 6th Street in Griffin.

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Spalding County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1851 from Fayette, Henry and Pike Counties. It was named for Thomas Spalding (1774-1851), native of Frederica. One of the earliest cotton and sugar cane planters in Georgia, he was a legislator, state senator, Congressman, and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1798. First officers of Spalding County, commissioned Feb. 5, 1852, were: Addison A. Wooten, Sheriff; Henry B. Holliday, Clk. Sup. Ct.; James S. Wood, Clk. Inf. Ct.; William L. Gordon, Ord.; Elisha P. Bolton, Tax Rec.; Pressley Burdett, Tax Col.; Hezekiah Wheeler, Coroner; William Ellis, Surveyor.

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