Fitzgerald, Georgia Fitzgerald, Georgia Fitzgerald City Hall Fitzgerald City Hall Location in Ben Hill County and the state of Georgia Location in Ben Hill County and the state of Georgia The town/city of Fitzgerald is the governmental center of county of Ben Hill County in the U.S.
State of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, it had a populace of 9,053. It is the principal town/city of the Fitzgerald Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Ben Hill and Irwin counties.
Fitzgerald, an Indianapolis journal editor and a former drummer boy in the Union Army, who established it as a improve for Civil War veterans both from the Union and from the Confederacy. The majority of the first people (some 2700) were Union veterans. It was incorporated on December 2, 1896. The town is positioned less than 15 miles (24 km) from the site of the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis on May 10, 1865.
Fitzgerald is one of the several truly prepared cities in the United States.
Each of the wards was divided into four blocks and each block had sixteen squares. Streets running North/South on the east side of the town/city were titled after Confederate ships and generals, whereas the ones on the west side were titled after Union ships and generals. The Ben Hill County Courthouse and Ben Hill County Jail in Fitzgerald are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fitzgerald is positioned in south central Georgia at 31 42 56 N 83 15 23 W (31.715432, -83.256464). U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.0 square miles (23.3 km2), of which 8.8 square miles (22.9 km2) is territory and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 1.64%, is water. In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 28.3% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Fitzgerald was home to a minor league baseball team in the Georgia State League from 1948, the league's first season of operation, through 1952.
The team was called the Fitzgerald Pioneers, and the club had no affiliation with any primary league club amid the five seasons of operation in the Georgia State League.
After the 1952 season the Fitzgerald Pioneers relocated to Sandersville and became the Sandersville Wacos, which were affiliated with the Milwaukee Braves for the 1953 season.
After a season with no affiliation in 1954 the Sandersville Wacos became affiliated with the New York Giants and became known as the Sandersville Giants for their final two seasons of operations 1955 56.
Fitzgerald got a replacement team for the Pioneers in 1953 when the Moultrie Giants of the Georgia Florida League moved to town.
The Moultrie club was a charter member of the Georgia Florida League when it began operations in 1946.
The club began operations as an autonomous club with no affiliation with any primary league baseball club and was known as the Moultrie Packers for the first two seasons of operations 1946-47.
After the 1947 season the Moultrie club became an partner of the Philadelphia A's and became known as the Moultrie A's for the 1948 and 1949 seasons.
After a season as a Chicago Cubs partner in 1950 the Moultrie Cubs became an autonomous club again and was known as the Moultrie To-Baks for the 1951 season before becoming affiliated with the New York Giants and becoming the Moultrie Giants for the 1952 season.
After relocating to Fitzgerald and becoming an partner of the Cincinnati Redlegs, the new version of the Fitzgerald Pioneers lasted one season (1954) saw the team name changed to the Fitzgerald Redlegs.
After two years in Fitzgerald the club relocated back to Moultrie and remained a Cincinnati Reds minor league team known as the Moultrie Reds for the next two years, 1955 through 1956.
Moultrie became a Phillies minor league team in 1957, but the club relocated amid the season to Brunswick, Georgia.
The Brunswick Phillies were members of the Georgia Florida League amid its final year of operations in 1958.
After the Fitzgerald Redlegs left town, the town/city was without a team for the 1955 season, but the next year another longtime member of the Georgia Florida League relocated to Fitzgerald.
The Cordele club relocated to Fitzgerald after ten seasons in Cordele.
During the club's years in Cordele the team was affiliated with four different primary league baseball clubs, first with the Chicago White Sox (the Cordele White Sox in 1946), then came three years as a Cleveland Indians minor league club (the Cordele Indians 1947-49), then four years as a Philadelphia A's minor league club (the Cordele A's 1950 1953) and finally two seasons as a Baltimore Orioles minor league club (the Americus-Cordele Orioles in 1954 and Cordele Orioles in 1955).
After the Cordele club came to town they changed affiliation back to the now Kansas City A's, and the Fitzgerald A's played for the 1956 season.
The next year the club changed affiliation again, this time back to the Baltimore Orioles, and the club was known as the Fitzgerald Orioles for the 1957 season.
The Fitzgerald club relocated to Dublin following the 1957 season and remained a Baltimore Orioles farm team, becoming the Dublin Orioles for the Georgia Florida League's last year of operation.
Fitzgerald has not had a minor league in the 52 years since.
Earl Weaver, later the manager for the Baltimore Orioles, was a manager for the Fitzgerald Orioles in 1957 and remained with them after they became the Dublin Orioles in 1958.
The Ben Hill County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of two pre-schools, an elementary school, a middle school and a high school. The precinct has 217 full-time teachers and over 3,395 students. "City of Fitzgerald Georgia Official Website".
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