This legislative session, a bill came up to recreate Milton County, which was absorbed into Fulton County during the Great Depression. That bill didn’t go anywhere, but it did get WABE thinking about counties.
Georgia has 159 of them, and that’s more than just about every other state. In fact, only Texas has more.
Where did all of Georgia’s counties come from?
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