Bryan County Courthouse - Pembroke, GA
N 32° 08.014 W 081° 37.303
17S E 441360 N 3555409
The Bryan County Courthouse was built in 1938 in Pembroke, GA.
Waymark Code: WM24VV
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2007
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From an
University of Georgia web site:
"Bryan was one of five counties created by an act of the General Assembly approved on Dec. 19, 1793 [and in terms of order listed in the act was Georgia's 19th county]. Created from portions of Chatham County, it was named for Jonathan Bryan (1708-1788). Born in South Carolina, Bryan had close ties to Georgia from the arrival of the first colonists in 1733. He became noted for his support of colonists' rights in Georgia, and during the Revolution Bryan was captured and imprisoned by the British.
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The colonial town of Hardwick, laid out in 1755, served as the initial county seat. In 1797, the General Assembly designated that court be held at a settlement at a settlement two miles from the Ogeechee River known as Cross Roads. In 1854, a wooden courthouse was built here -- a site frequently identified simplay as Bryan Courthouse. Later, Eden became county seat, and in 1901 the county seat was moved to Clyde, where a two-story wooden courthouse was built. Clyde remained county seat until the U.S. Army initiated plans for an anti-artillery training center. Because Cross Roads lay in the area needed by the Army for what would become Camp [and later Fort] Stewart, the Georgia General Assembly designated the town of Pembroke as Bryan's new county seat in 1937."