Headnote
MILLEDGEVILLE, city, seat of justice of Baldwin со., and capital of the state of Georgia, situated at the head of steamboat navigation on Oconee river, and is 300 miles from the sea; from W. 648 ms. The city is built on elevated and somewhat uneven ground, in the midst of a rich and populous cotton-producing region, and is laid out with broad streets and pleasant squares. The statehouse is a fine edifice of Gothic architecture, surmounted by a cupola,... Pop. in 1810, 1,236; in 1820, -----; in 1830, 1,599; in 1840, 2,095; in 1850, 2,216. (Fanning's, 1853)
Place Unit Type
City or Town
Containing Unit
Baldwin County, GA

Milledgeville, Georgia (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
MILLEDGEVILLE, city, seat of justice of Baldwin со., and capital of the state of Georgia, situated at the head of steamboat navigation on Oconee river, and is 300 miles from the sea; from W. 648 ms. The city is built on elevated and somewhat uneven ground, in the midst of a rich and populous cotton-producing region, and is laid out with broad streets and pleasant squares. The statehouse is a fine edifice of Gothic architecture, surmounted by a cupola, and containing in its halls portraits of General Oglethorpe and other eminent men of earlier times. Among the prominent buildings, are banks, a market-house, governor's house, state arsenal, and churches. A bridge extends to the west bank of the river. Pop. in 1810, 1,236; in 1820, -----; in 1830, 1,599; in 1840, 2,095; in 1850, 2,216.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 223.
Date Type
Alexander Stephens addresses the Georgia Legislature and urges acceptance and a new South Lawmaking/Litigating
Breckinridge supporter John Brown Gordon tells college students slavery is "the hand-maid of civil liberty" Slavery/Abolition
Charles Jones Jenkins is inaugurated as the first post-Civil War elected governor of Georgia Campaigns/Elections
Georgia holds elections for representatives to a planned State Convention in Milledgeville, the capital. Campaigns/Elections
Georgia secedes from the Union Lawmaking/Litigating
Georgia votes an additional state tax to provide for distressed Confederate veterans and their families Lawmaking/Litigating
Georgia's secession convention assembles in Milledgeville Lawmaking/Litigating
In Georgia, the Baldwin County Courthouse in Milledgeville burns to the ground Crime/Disasters
In Milledgeville, Georgia becomes the second state to reject the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawmaking/Litigating
Mississippi secession commissioner William L. Harris urges Georgia legislature to support secession Lawmaking/Litigating
New Georgia legislature assembles in Milledgeville Lawmaking/Litigating
The Georgia Legislature chooses its presidential electors Campaigns/Elections
The Georgia State Convention votes to repeal the act of Secession passed in its legislature on January 19, 1861 Lawmaking/Litigating
Sherman's March
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Charles Jones Jenkins, "Inaugural Address as governor of Georgia (excerpts)" December 14, 1865, Milledgeville, Georgia
New York Times, “A Secession Breakwater,” November 20, 1860
Editorial, "The Fall of Richmond and Southern Feeling," New York Times, April 6, 1865
James Johnson, "Proclamation of Arrangements for a State Convention," July 13, 185, Milledgeville, Georgia
Andrew Johnson to James Johnson, October 28, 1865, Washington, D.C.
Georgia State Convention, "An Ordinance to repeal certain ordinances and resolutions...." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
Georgia State Convention, "Plea for the release and pardon of Jefferson Davis..." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
Charles Jones Jenkins to Andrew Johnson, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1866
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