Lamar County-GHM-085-2-Lamar County
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N 33° 03.154 W 084° 09.371
16S E 765544 N 3660710
Location: Courthouse in Barnesville
Waymark Code: WM4JV0
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2008
Views: 16
Lamar County was created by Act of State Assembly August 17, 1920. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, lawyer, Colonel in the Confederate Army, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The first officers of Lamar County included: B.H. Hardy, Ordinary; S.J.Childers, Clerk of Court; Z.T. Elliott, Sheriff; E. Luther Butler, Tax Receiver; Gus Smith, B.K. Crouch, Coroner; Roger H. Taylor, Surveyor; J.F. Redding, Judge; Mrs. Mattie Barnes, School Supt.; H.M. Johnson, E.O. Dobbs, H. J. Kennedy, Solicitors.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 085-2
Date: 1955
Sponsor: Not listed
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