Lanier County-GHM 086-1-Lanier Co
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N 31° 02.470 W 083° 04.513
17R E 301951 N 3436014
Courthouse in Lakeland
Waymark Code: WMC037
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2011
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This County created by Acts of the Legislature of Aug. 11, 1919 & Aug. 7, 1920 is named for Sidney Lanier, poet of Georgia. Lanier was born in Macon Feb. 3, 1842 and practiced law there with his father after graduating from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville. He married Mary Day of Macon in ´67 after serving in the Confederate Army and being captured while commanding a blockade runner. In ´73 he moved to Baltimore and lectured at Johns Hopkins. He died at Lynn, N.C. Sept. 7, 1881. Among his famous poems are ´The Marshes of Glynn´ & ´Song of the Chattahoochee.´
GHM 086-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 086-1
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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