Rabun County
N 34° 52.718 W 083° 24.173
17S E 280387 N 3862218
Named for Georgia's 11th Governor. Home to the famous school.
Waymark Code: WM113B
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2006
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This County created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 21, 1819, is named for William Rabun, 11th Governor of Georgia who was elected in 1817 and died in 1819. Self-educated by reading he served as a member of the Legislature and as President of the Senate. Here now is located the famous Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School for the education of entire families. Among the first County Officers were: Justices of the Inferior Court Edward Coffee, John McClure, Samuel Farris, William Kelly, William Gillespie, Andrew Miller, James Dillard and Clerk Thomas Kelly.
119-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954
Type of Marker: Other
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