Tift County - GHM 137-1
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GA Cacher
N 31° 27.246 W 083° 30.455
17R E 261717 N 3482651
Located at the Tift County Courthouse, Tifton, Ga
Waymark Code: WM3RQB
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/12/2008
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TIFT COUNTY
This County, created by Act of the Legislature
August 17, 1905,
is officially named for Nelson
Tift, well known businessman, legislator
and
Mayor of Albany. The organizers also had
in mind his nephew Henry Hardin Tift,
who
founded Tifton in 1872 when he built a saw
mill
and commissary here though the first
postoffice was not established until 1887.
Among the first County Officers were: Sheriff
J.B. Baker,
Ordinary W.S. Walker, Clerk J.E.
Peoples, Tax Receiver J.A. Marchant,
Tax Collector J. Henry Hutchinson, Treasurer S. F.
Overstreet,
Coroner J.E. Johns, and Surveyor
J.T. Webb.