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Tift County, Georgia
Tift County is a County (United States), county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 41,344. The county seat is Tifton, Georgia, Tifton. Tift County comprises the Tifton, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, micropolitan statistical area. History The county was created on August 17, 1905, and is named for Henry Harding Tift, who founded Tifton in 1872. Tift purchased about 65,000 acres of virgin pine timberland there in the Wiregrass Region of South Georgia, and established a sawmill and a village for his workers. Tift eventually expanded into turpentine and barrel-making operations, and turned his barren timberlands into farms for cotton, corn, livestock, fruit, tobacco, pecans and sweet potatoes. When the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway intersected the Brunswick and Western Railroad near Tift's mill in 1888, the settlement was connected to Atlanta an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift (July 23, 1810 – November 21, 1891) was an American jurist, businessman, sailor, and politician who is best known for founding the city of Albany, Georgia. Biography Tift was born in Groton, Connecticut. Early in his life he became a devout Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopalian. He moved with his family to Key West, Florida in the 1820s, where he assisted his father in a mercantile business, and then to Augusta, Georgia in 1830, where he was also in business. During his travels, he opened many side businesses and ventures. He arrived in what would later be called Albany and set up a small trading post along with a sawmill. On July 5, 1840, he was elected to the Baker County, Georgia Inferior Court and was re-elected to that post in January 1841. In 1840, he owned 11 slaves. Tift was married and had at least one daughter, Fannie, who was married to Confederate War Captain Thomas N. Nelson; he fought in the war and died at Tupelo, Mississippi in 1864. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chula, Georgia
Chula is an unincorporated community in Tift County, Georgia, United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 41 near Interstate 75, north-northwest of Tifton. Chula has a post office with ZIP code 31733. History An early variant name was "Ruby". The Georgia General Assembly The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directl ... incorporated the place in 1904 as the "Town of Chula". The town's municipal charter was repealed in 1906. References Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) Unincorporated communities in Tift County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) {{TiftCountyGA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia State Route 401
__NOTOC__ Year 401 ( CDI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vincentius and Fravitus (or, less frequently, year 1154 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 401 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Arcadius sends many gifts to the Hunnic chieftain Uldin, in appreciation of his victory over the Goths and Gainas. Arcadius then allies himself with the Huns. * Piracy is committed by slave-traders from Galatia (Anatolia), along the coasts of Africa. * The old Legio II Adiutrix, part of which had always been stationed at Aquincum (modern Budapest), is divided into two '' comitatenses'', and shipped to Britannia. * Stilicho, Roman general (''magister militum''), leads his army in an extensive campaign against the Vandals in Rhaetia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia 401
Interstate 75 (I-75) in the US state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia travels north–south along the U.S. Route 41 in Georgia, U.S. Route 41 (US 41) corridor in the central part of the state, traveling through the cities of Valdosta, Georgia, Valdosta, Macon, Georgia, Macon, and Atlanta. It is also designated—but not signed—as State Route 401 (SR 401). I-75 is the only Interstate to traverse the full length of the state from north to south, from the flat Atlantic Plain, Atlantic Coastal Plains in southeast Georgia to the rolling North Georgia mountains, mountains of North Georgia. In Downtown Atlanta, I-75 concurrency (road), runs concurrently with Interstate 85 in Georgia, I-85 as the Downtown Connector. The segment from Georgia State Route 49, SR 49 in Byron, Georgia, Byron to Interstate 16, I-16 in Macon, Georgia, Macon is part of the Fall Line Freeway and may be incorporated into the eastern extension of Interstate 14, I-14, which is curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia State Route 125
State Route 125 (SR 125) is a State highway (US), state highway that runs south-to-north in an S-shape through the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It travels through Lowndes County, Georgia, Lowndes, Lanier County, Georgia, Lanier, Berrien County, Georgia, Berrien, Tift County, Georgia, Tift, Irwin County, Georgia, Irwin, and Ben Hill County, Georgia, Ben Hill County (United States), counties connecting the Valdosta, Georgia metropolitan area, Valdosta and Fitzgerald, Georgia micropolitan area, Fitzgerald metropolitan areas. Route description SR 125 begins at an Intersection (road), intersection with U.S. Route 41 in Georgia, U.S. Route 41 (US 41) and Georgia State Route 7, SR 7 (Inner Perimeter Road) on the north side of Valdosta, Georgia, Valdosta. The route runs north-northeast, past Freedom Park and passes through Moody Air Force Base and intersects Georgia State Route 122, SR 122 at the tripoint, meeting point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia 125
Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the female given name * Georgia (musician) (born 1990), English singer, songwriter, and drummer Georgia Barnes Places Historical polities * Kingdom of Georgia, a medieval kingdom * Kingdom of Eastern Georgia, a late medieval kingdom * Kingdom of Western Georgia, a late medieval kingdom * Georgia Governorate, a subdivision of the Russian Empire * Georgia within the Russian Empire * Democratic Republic of Georgia, a country established after the collapse of the Russian Empire and later conquered by Soviet Russia. * Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a republic within the Soviet Union * Republic of Georgia, a republic in the Soviet Union which, after the collapse of the USSR (1991), was a independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia State Route 35
U.S. Route 319 (US 319) is a spur of US 19. It runs for from US 98 at the foot of the John Gorrie Memorial Bridge across from downtown Apalachicola, Florida to US 1/ SR 4 in Wadley, Georgia, through the Panhandle of Florida and the southern portion of Georgia. Route description Florida The route starts as a two-lane highway at the eastern end of US 98's bridge over the Apalachicola River near the John Gorrie Bridge in Apalachicola, Florida, and is concurrent with US 98 from its starting point. After crossing the East Bay portion of Apalachicola Bay via the John Gorrie Bridge, US 319 runs along the Gulf coast of Florida's Panhandle to Carabelle in Franklin County, and departs the coast, and its concurrency with US 98, about halfway between Carrabelle and Bald Point State Park, in a north direction through Sopchoppy in Wakulla County. In Sopchoppy, the route angles east, briefly meets up with US 98 once more, before parting ways again and running north through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia State Route 7
State Route 7 (SR 7) is a State highway (US), state highway that travels in a southeast-to-northwest orientation through portions of Lowndes County, Georgia, Lowndes, Cook County, Georgia, Cook, Tift County, Georgia, Tift, Turner County, Georgia, Turner, Crisp County, Georgia, Crisp, Dooly County, Georgia, Dooly, Houston County, Georgia, Houston, Peach County, Georgia, Peach, Crawford County, Georgia, Crawford, Monroe County, Georgia, Monroe, Lamar County, Georgia, Lamar, Pike County, Georgia, Pike, and Spalding County, Georgia, Spalding counties in the southern and Central Georgia, central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The highway connects the Florida state line southeast of Lake Park, Georgia, Lake Park to the Griffin, Georgia, Griffin area, via Valdosta, Georgia metropolitan area, Valdosta, Tifton, Georgia, Tifton, Cordele, Georgia, Cordele, Perry, Georgia, Perry, and Barnesville, Georgia, Barnesville. The highway is concurrency (road), co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia 7
State Route 7 (SR 7) is a state highway that travels in a southeast-to-northwest orientation through portions of Lowndes, Cook, Tift, Turner, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Peach, Crawford, Monroe, Lamar, Pike, and Spalding counties in the southern and central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway connects the Florida state line southeast of Lake Park to the Griffin area, via Valdosta, Tifton, Cordele, Perry, and Barnesville. The highway is concurrent with either US 41 or US 341 for its entire length, and closely parallels I-75 for much of its length. SR 7 was established at least as early as 1919 along nearly the same path it travels today. US 41/SR 7 was designated on a concurrency with I-75 northwest of Valdosta to Hahira in 1982. US 41/SR 7 were re-routed onto an eastern bypass of Valdosta in 2006. Route description Echols and Lowndes counties SR 7 begins at the Florida state line, southeast of Lake Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US 319
U.S. Route 319 (US 319) is a spur of US 19. It runs for from US 98 at the foot of the John Gorrie Memorial Bridge across from downtown Apalachicola, Florida to US 1/ SR 4 in Wadley, Georgia, through the Panhandle of Florida and the southern portion of Georgia. Route description Florida The route starts as a two-lane highway at the eastern end of US 98's bridge over the Apalachicola River near the John Gorrie Bridge in Apalachicola, Florida, and is concurrent with US 98 from its starting point. After crossing the East Bay portion of Apalachicola Bay via the John Gorrie Bridge, US 319 runs along the Gulf coast of Florida's Panhandle to Carabelle in Franklin County, and departs the coast, and its concurrency with US 98, about halfway between Carrabelle and Bald Point State Park, in a north direction through Sopchoppy in Wakulla County. In Sopchoppy, the route angles east, briefly meets up with US 98 once more, before parting ways again and running north through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US 82
U.S. Route 82 (US 82) is an east–west United States Numbered Highways, United States highway in the Southern United States. Created on July 1, 1931 across central Mississippi and southern Arkansas, US 82 eventually became a route extending from the White Sands National Park, White Sands of New Mexico to Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The highway's eastern terminus is in Brunswick, Georgia, at an interchange with Interstate 95 in Georgia, Interstate 95. It is co-signed for its last with U.S. Route 17. Its western terminus is in Alamogordo, New Mexico at an intersection with U.S. Route 54 and U.S. Route 70 in New Mexico, U.S. Route 70. Route description New Mexico US 82 begins at an intersection with US highways U.S. Route 54, 54 and U.S. Route 70 in New Mexico, 70 north of Alamogordo, New Mexico, Alamogordo, and south of La Luz, New Mexico. Heading east out of Alamogordo the road ascends into the Sacramento Mountains (New Mexico), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
