Lamar County State Historical Marker

Located at the Lamar County Courthouse, Barnesville, Ga.

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LAMAR COUNTY

 

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, Tax Collector; W.C. Jordan, Treasurer;

B.K. Crouch, Coroner; Roger H. Taylor, Sur-

veyor; J.F. Redding, Judge; Mrs. Mattie Barnes,

School Supt.; H.M. Johnson, E.O. Dobbs, H. J.

Kennedy, Solicitors.

 

085-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955

Photo: Keith Hair

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