First Seat of Government of Randolph County

First Seat of Government of Randolph County is a Georgia historical marker in Stewart County, dedicated 1956.

At the intersection of Singer Pond Road (County Route 145) and Unnamed dirt road, on the right when traveling south on Singer Pond Road in Lumpkin.

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Near here on the old Fort Gaines Road, on March 30, 1829, at the Wamble home, was held the first Inferior Court for Randolph County which, at that time, included Stewart, Webster, and Randolph Counties. Lumpkin was soon made the County Seat of Randolph County and continued for Stewart County after it was formed in 1830. On February 12, 1829, Gov. John Forsyth commissioned Allen Wamble, Jared Irwin (nephew of Gov. Jared Irwin), John Cowan, John R.M. Neel, and Jacob Parker as Justices of the Inferior Court of Randolph County.

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1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1825 · Georgia and Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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First Seat of Government of Randolph County

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