- Lamar County State Historical
Marker
- Located in front of the courthouse, Barnesville,
Ga.
(Text)
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, 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.
- 085-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1955
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