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Ware
County,
Georgia
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The county seat
is Waycross, Georgia.
By geographic area, Ware County is the largest Georgia county.
The county is named for Nicholas Ware - the mayor of Augusta, Georgia
from (1819-1821) and a United States Senator who represented Georgia
from 1821 until his death in 1824.
Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15th,1824
by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally
part of Appling county.
Several counties were later created from parts of the original Ware
County borders:
Bacon
County (from portions of Appling, Pierce, and Ware Counties in 1917)
Clinch
County (from portions of Lowndes and Ware Counties in 1850)
Coffee
County (from portions of
Clinch , Irwin, Telfair,
and
Ware
Counties
in
1854)
Pierce
County (from portions of
Appling and Ware Counties in 1857)
Waycross County Seat
The area now known as Waycross was first settled around 1820, locally
known as "Old Nine" or "Number Nine" and then Pendleton. It was renamed
Tebeauvilee in 1857, incorporated in 1866 and designated county seat of
Ware County in 1873. Then it was incorporated as "Way Cross" on March
3, 1935.
During the 1950s the city had a tourist gimmick. The local police would
stop motorists with out-of-state license plates and escort them to
downtown Waycross.
There they would be met by the Welcome World
Committee and given overnight lodging, dinner and a trip to the
Okefenokee Swamp.
The tradition faded away after the interstates opened
through Georgia.
Cities and towns
Deenwood -- Manor -- Sunnyside --
Waycross -- Ruskin
Dixie Union -- Millwood -- Waresboro
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Online Data
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Biographies
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Births
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church Histories/Records
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County Records
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Court Records
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Deaths
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Query
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History
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Marriages
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Military
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Newspaper Data
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Obituaries
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Early Deed Records
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Wills/Legal Records
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Website
Updates:
Nov
2009:
biographies
for
WILSON,
SWEAT, EDWARDS; "Events"
News Items April 2010 bios for Walker, John L., M. D., Sweat,
Frank L., Sweat, Joel L., Sessoms, Redding, Joseph Henry,
M. D.,; April 2011 History - world War 2 Honor Roll
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