Wheeler County-GHM 153-1-Wheeler Co
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N 32° 08.880 W 082° 46.928
17S E 331927 N 3558231
On Pearl Street at the Courthouse in Alamo
Waymark Code: WMA5KB
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2010
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This County, created by Act of the Legislature Aug. 14, 1912, is named for Gen. Joseph Wheeler, famous Confederate Cavalry leader and Major General of Cavalry in the Spanish War. He twice saved Augusta from Kilpatrick`s Union Cavalry, at Waynesboro, Ga., in 1864 and at Aiken, S.C. in `65. For his brilliant work at Santiago Teddy Roosevelt called him `a regular gamecock.` First County Officers were: Ordinary Wm. B. Kent, Superior Court Clerk John Durden Brown, Sheriff J.F. Wright, Tax Receiver W.T. Hadden, Tax Collector J.A. Martin, Treasurer Daniel Pope, Surveyor E. Miller and Coroner James J. Brantley.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 153-1
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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