Donalsonville, Georgia Donalsonville, Georgia Donalsonville City Hall Donalsonville City Hall Location in Seminole County and the state of Georgia Location in Seminole County and the state of Georgia County Seminole Donalsonville is a town/city in Seminole County, Georgia, United States.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Seminole County. Donalsonville was originally part of Decatur County.
Donalsonville was first chartered as a town in Georgia on December 8, 1897.
When Seminole County was formed in January 1920, Donalsonville was titled as its county seat.
By August 1922, the Town of Donalsonville became known as the City of Donalsonville, with the charter passing on August 19, 1922.
The Seminole County Courthouse was erected in 1922 and is still standing today.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.0 square miles (10 km2), of which 4.0 square miles (10 km2) is territory and 0.25% is water.
The town/city is positioned 20 minutes north of Lake Seminole, 62 miles (100 km) south of Albany, 36 miles (58 km) east of Dothan, Alabama and 107 miles (172 km) west of Valdosta.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 2,650 citizens residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 61.4% Black, 34.1% White, 0.0% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 0.3% from some other race and 1.2% from two or more competitions.
At the 2000 census, there were 2,796 citizens , 1,008 homeholds, and 697 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 37.23% White, 58.73% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 2.75% from other competitions, and 0.75% from two or more competitions.
Enumeration Bureau, there is a total of 2,796 citizens living in Donalsonville, with 45.3% males and 54.7% females.
There is 58.7% African American, 37.2% Caucasians, 3.9% Hispanic, and 4.1% other competitions living in Donalsonville.
Enumeration report in 2000 was $20,687 and median family income was $25,679, with the average homehold size around 2 and family size around 3 citizens .
According to 2012 data from the Donalsonville Chamber of Commerce, the top five employers in the town/city are as follows: The former "Harvest Festival", now "Georgia's Big Fish Festival", is a part of Donalsonville's culture as well.
The Seminole County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of one elementary school and one middle-high school. The precinct has 120 full-time teachers and over 1,754 students. Seminole County Elementary School Seminole County Middle/High School Donalsonville was the site of the second biggest mass murder in Georgia history (the biggest being the Woolfolk murders in 1887).
On May 14, 1973, Carl Isaacs, his half brother Wayne Coleman, and fellow prisoner George Dungee escaped from the Maryland State Prison.
Carl Isaacs, Coleman, and Dungee were tried by jury in Seminole County in 1973, convicted, and sentenced to death.
Carl Isaacs was executed on May 6, 2003, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, by lethal injection. At the time of his execution, aged 49, he was the longest-serving death row inmate anywhere in the USA, having spent 30 years on death row before to execution.
The first church was erected in Donalsonville in 1850, the Friendship United Methodist Church.
Later, the First Presbyterian Church of Donalsonville was established in January 1898 with 25 members.
On August 4, 1902, 18 citizens helped to problematic the First Baptist Church of Donalsonville.
The first black church in Donalsonville was created in 1895, the Live Oak African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The citizens of Donalsonville saw the need to problematic churches to worship and with this vision came a number of churches, eventually totaling thirteen.
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