Waresboro is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, su ...
(CDP) in
Ware County
Ware may refer to:
People
* Ware (surname)
* William of Ware (), English Franciscan theologian
Places Canada
* Fort Ware, British Columbia
United Kingdom
*Ware, Devon
*Ware, Hertfordshire
* Ware, Kent
United States
* Ware, Elmore County, A ...
,
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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, United States, located west of
Waycross. The community is part of the Waycross
Micropolitan Statistical Area.
It was first listed as a CDP in the
2020 census with a population of 375.
History
In 1824, Waresboro was the first county seat of Ware County. In 1860, newspaperman and lawyer
Carey Wentworth Styles
Carey Wentworth Styles (October 7, 1825 – February 23, 1897) was an American lawyer and journalist who either founded or wrote for "at least" 21 newspapers in his career. He is best remembered as the founder of ''The Atlanta Constitution''. Dur ...
practiced law in Waresboro, after moving to the community from
Brunswick where he had been mayor. While in Waresboro, Styles published the ''Georgia Forester'', a weekly newspaper. In 1861, Styles was elected as a delegate from Ware County to the
Georgia Secession Convention where, along with the other delegate from Ware, Col. William Angus McDonald, Styles voted to secede.
Styles left Waresboro at the beginning of the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a regi