Jones County-GHM 084-5-Jones Co
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N 33° 00.513 W 083° 32.179
17S E 263058 N 3655092
on US 129 at the Jones County Courthouse, Gray, Ga.
Waymark Code: WM6WJY
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2009
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This County, created by Act of the Legislature Dec. 10, 1807, is named for James Jones of Savannah, a legislator at 23 and member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1798 in which year he was elected to Congress. The first County Site was at Clinton but it was changed to Gray in 1905. Among the first County Officers were: Sheriff James Riley, Clerk of Superior Court John R. Gregory, Clerk of Inferior Court James Bond, Tax Receiver Daniel Candler, Tax Collector Hillery Pratt, Coroner Thomas Thrower and Surveyor Charles Miller. First Justices of the Inferior Court were: William Binion, William Jones, Hugh M. Comer, James Jackson and John McKenzie.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 084-5
Date: 1955
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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