Dublin, Georgia Dublin, Georgia City of Dublin Dublin City Hall Dublin City Hall Location in Laurens County and the state of Georgia Location in Laurens County and the state of Georgia Dublin is a town/city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 16,201. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Laurens County. 4.1 Dublin City School District 4.2 Laurens County School District The initial settlement was titled after Dublin, Ireland. Because of Dublin's locale as a midpoint between Savannah and Atlanta, the town in recent decades became home to a small assortment of industrialized distribution centers, which complemented various industries textiles, furniture, and paper, among the rest that had already established themselves there in the second half of the 20th century.
Historically, however, Dublin's economy was based on the small-town cotton, corn, and soybean trades, which blossomed as the town's central locale enabled it to thrive with the expansion of the barns .
Originally, Dublin and the encircling area was home to Native Americans of the Muskogee citizens .
Even with the Irish lineage of Dublin's first non-indigenous settlers, the town, like most of Middle Georgia, by the late 19th century had evolved from mixture of ethnicities.
Dublin, as stated to a historical marker at the town's chief Oconee bridge, was one of the last encampments at which Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family stayed before being captured by Union forces in May 1865.
Dublin is positioned at 32 32 15 N 82 55 6 W (32.537463, -82.918358). The town, titled such because the Middle Georgia piedmont reminded Irish pioneer of terrain in their native country, was established on the Oconee River, which starts in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Georgia before combining with the Ocmulgee River to form the Altamaha, a river which then proceeds to its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 13.3 square miles (34 km2), of which, 13.2 square miles (34 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.45%) is water.
The United States Postal Service operates the Dublin Post Office and the Court Square Station in Dublin. It was originally commissioned as Naval Hospital Dublin on January 22, 1945 as an ideal locale for the convalescence from Rheumatic Fever.
Dublin's Laurens County Library is also known for its genealogy department, with archives and records going back two hundred years.
Dublin City School District Dublin City School District (Laurens County, Georgia) The Dublin City School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and an alternative school. The precinct has 231 full-time teachers and over 3,262 students. Dublin Middle School Dublin High School Laurens County School District The Laurens County School District holds grades pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of four elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. The precinct has 381 full-time teachers and over 6,034 students. Georgia Military College - Dublin Campus Middle Georgia State University - Dublin Campus Location of the Dublin Micropolitan Travel Destination in Georgia Dublin is the principal town/city of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan region that covers Johnson and Laurens counties and had a combined populace of 53,434 at the 2000 census. Dublin is home to a several scholarship pageants, which are largely prominent in the Southern United States: Dublin and Laurens County's America's Junior Miss Pageant is a scholarship competition held annual for high school juniors.
The winners of both the Dublin and Laurens County pageants advance to the state pageant.
The town, along with a reference to the Oconee River and Laurens County, is mentioned in the opening page of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time." (Joyce explained in a letter: "Dublin, Laurens Co, Georgia, established by a Dubliner, Peter Sawyer, on r.
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Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 4, 2010.
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Georgia Military College, retrieved August 31, 2015.
Oconee Fall Line Technical College, retrieved June 4, 2010.
Middle Georgia State University, retrieved August 31, 2015.
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