Eastman, Georgia Eastman, Georgia Eastman City Hall in Eastman Eastman City Hall in Eastman Location in Dodge County and the state of Georgia Location in Dodge County and the state of Georgia Country United States State Georgia County Dodge Eastman is a town/city in Dodge County, Georgia, United States.

The populace was 4,962 at the 2010 census. Named after one of the framers who contributed a site and paid for the county courthouse, the town/city was established in 1871, and is the governmental center of county of Dodge County. During the Great Depression in 1937, the first Stuckey's covenience store, now well known along roadways throughout the Southeastern United States, was established in Eastman.

7.1 Dodge County School District Eastman was established in 1871 as the seat of the newly formed Dodge County.

It was incorporated as a town in 1873 and as a town/city in 1905. Eastman is titled for W.

Dodge, presented the county with a courthouse. During that same time period, Ira Roe Foster, former Quartermaster General of Georgia, directed a sawmill in Dodge County.

Foster shipped lumber to Brunswick, where it was loaded onto timber schooners and transported to global markets like Liverpool, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana." When Eastman was incorporated in 1872, Foster served as its first mayor. Eastman is positioned in the center of Dodge County at 32 11 52 N 83 10 45 W (32.197760, -83.179271). U.S.

Route 341 bypasses the town/city on the southwest, dominant west 20 miles (32 km) to Hawkinsville and southeast with US 23 to Mc - Rae-Helena.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Eastman has a total region of 5.5 square miles (14.2 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (14.0 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.93%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.5% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older.

Climate data for Eastman, Georgia Georgia State Route 27 Georgia State Route 46 Georgia State Route 87 Georgia State Route 117 The Dodge County Golf Club has a 9-hole golf course, a swimming pool and private golf cart selection.

Dodge County School District Dodge County students in kindergarten to twelfth grades are in the Dodge County School District, which consists of a pre-K school, two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The precinct has 210 full-time teachers and over 3,500 students. Dodge Pre - K School South Dodge Elementary School North Dodge Elementary School Dodge County Middle School Dodge County High School Middle Georgia State College - Eastman Campus at the Heart of Georgia Regional Airport Middle Georgia State University Eastman Aviation Campus (previously known as Georgia Aviation Technical College before it consolidated with the Middle Georgia College). Peabody School, also known as Peabody High School, is an historic school building positioned on Herman Avenue in Eastman, Georgia. Built in 1938, it was designed by Eastman-born American architect Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas.

It was closed in 1970 and its students were integrated into Dodge County High School and other formerly all-white enhance schools in Dodge County.

Ira Roe Foster, 19th century polymath, first mayor of Eastman, Quartermaster General of the State of Georgia, state senator and representative, brigadier general in Georgia Militia, assembled a sawmill in Dodge County The first courthouse he assembled was the Dodge County Courthouse (1908) and the last building was the Peabody School (1938).

Stuckey, Jr., Democratic Party member of United States House of Representatives who represented Georgia's 8th congressional precinct (1967 1977), president of Stuckey's (1958 1966) and later Chairman of the Board United States Enumeration Bureau.

United States Geological Survey.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Eastman city, Georgia".

Historical Gazetteer of the United States.

The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States.

The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910 - Timber Is King.

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Enumeration of Population and Housing".

"Historical Weather for Eastman, Georgia, United States".

Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 6, 2010.

Dodge County High School, Retrieved July 27, 2010.

Mercer University Eastman Regional Academic Center, Retrieved July 27, 2010.

Middle Georgia College- Aviation Campus, Retrieved July 27, 2010.

Peabody High School, Retrieved July 27, 2010.

Georgia (U.S.

City of Eastman official website Municipalities and communities of Dodge County, Georgia, United States

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