First County Seat-GHM 124-1-Screven Co
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N 32° 40.141 W 081° 49.472
17S E 422688 N 3614895
At Rocky Ford on Ga 17
Waymark Code: WM805R
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2010
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Between 1765 and 1770 a group of settlers, mostly from North Carolina, settled and received grants for land in the vicinity of what is now Rockyford.
Among these first settlers were, Benjamin Lanier, Lemuel Lanier, Valentine Hollingsworth, Francis Jones, Thomas Mills, Anthony Bonnell, Abraham Mincey, Robert Dickson and Michael Dickson.
The first county seat of Screven County was established here on Dec. 14, 1793, and the home of Benjamin Lanier, across Mile Branch from this marker, was the first Court House.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 124-1
Date: 1953
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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