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History. Laurens County was formed on December 10, 1807, from portions of Wilkinson and Washington Counties. During the Red Summer of 1919 there was increased racial tension in the area and in August there was the Laurens County, Georgia race riot of 1919. Geography
History. Laurens County was one of six new counties created by an act of the General Assembly approved December 10, 1807 (Georgia Laws 1807, page 3). According to that legislation, Laurens County's original boundaries were specified as:
10 gru 2004 · Laurens County , in middle Georgia, was established by an act of the state legislature in 1807 and named in honor of Colonel John Laurens (1754-82) of South Carolina. Laurens was an aide to General George Washington and was killed by a British patrol near the end of the American Revolution (1775-83).
27 kwi 2024 · Laurens County, Georgia Genealogy. Guide to Laurens County, Georgia ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.
11 sty 2010 · From 1900 to 1910, Laurens County dropped to the seventh largest county in the state, but was the second fastest growing county in Georgia, only behind the capital county of Fulton. Once source noted that Dublin had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the nation.
The official history of Laurens county, Georgia, 1807-1941 [by] Bertha Sheppard Hart. Edited and published by John Laurens chapter, Daughters of the American revolution Hart, Bertha Sheppard. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x000607050
28 lut 2014 · On this page you will find stories of the first century of Laurens County, Georgia and East Central Georgia and of the Indians who occupied this area for more than 10,000 years.
