Saint Clair, Georgia
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Saint Clair (also Kilpatrick Estate) is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Burke County, in the
U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Georgia 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 pe ...
.


History

A post office called Saint Clair was established in 1832, and remained in operation until 1939. The community most likely was named after
Arthur St. Clair Major-General Arthur St. Clair ( – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-born American military officer and politician. Born in Thurso, Caithness, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in the Province of Pe ...
(1737–1818), a U.S. revolutionary general.


References

Unincorporated communities in Burke County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) {{BurkeCountyGA-geo-stub