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Book Title: Dead Towns Of Georgia

  Not infrequently a change in the location of public buildings dealt a
death-blow to villages of moderate size and feeble support. Take, for example,
the old town of JACKSONBOROUGH, confirmed as the county seat of Screven county
on the 15th of February, 1799. [1] As late as the 20th of December, 1823, an act
[2] of the Legislature, passed for its incorporation, designated the Court House
as the centre of the town, and extended the corporate limits a half mile in
every direction. Five years afterwards the "Jacksonborough Methodist Episcopal
Church" was incorporated. [3] The business of the county was, for some forty
years and more, mainly transacted at this place. Here, too, for some time,
resided Mr. John Abbot, whose work upon the Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia is
still highly prized by the students of Natural History. Upon the removal of the
public buildings to Sylvania in 1847, this place was robbed of all importance.
It was speedily abandoned; and now a few sherds of common pottery scattered over
the surface of the ground are all that is left to remind the visitor that the
tide of life was once here.


[1] Marbury and Crawford's Digest, p. 177.

[2] Dawson's Digest, p. 450.

[3] Dawson's Digest, p. 100.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

THE DEAD TOWNS OF GEORGIA;
BY
CHARLES C. JONES, JR.

FOR HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY.
Heb.: xiii. 14

SAVANNAH:
MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 
1878.

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