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English: Brooks County Historical Marker in front of Brooks County Courthouse in Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia

Historical marker reads:

Brooks County

This county, created by Act of the Legislature
Dec. 11, 1858, is named for Preston Smith
Brooks, zealous defender of States Rights.
Born in S.c. Augu 6, 1819, Brooks served in
the Mexican War & in Congress. He died June 27,
1857. The first County Officers included:
Ordinary Angus Morrison, Sheriff Enoch Hall
Pike, Clerk of Superior & Inferior Courts
D.W. McRae, Tax Collector George Alderman,
Tax Receiver John Delk, Treasurer William F.
Speight, Surveyor Jeremiah Wilson, Coroner
John T. Devane, State Senator Shadrack Griffin
and Representative John T. Edmonson

014-1 Georgia Historical Commission 1954
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Author Mjrmtg
Object location30° 47′ 06.64″ N, 83° 33′ 35.72″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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