Madison, Georgia

Madison, Georgia City of Madison Location in Morgan County and the state of Georgia Location in Morgan County and the state of Georgia Madison is positioned in the US Madison - Madison Madison is a town/city in Morgan County, Georgia, United States.

The town/city is the governmental center of county of Morgan County and the site of the Morgan County Courthouse.

The Historic District of Madison is one of the biggest in the state. Many of the nearly 100 antebellum homes have been carefully restored.

Bonar Hall is one of the first of the grand-style homes assembled in Madison amid the town's cotton-boom heyday between 1840-60.

Madison was titled the #1 Small Town in America by Travel Holiday magazine.

Madison received a 2017 Live, Work, Play City Award presented by the Georgia Municipal Association in conjunction with Georgia Trend Magazine, amid GMA's annual Mayors' Day Conference in Atlanta.

Madison is featured on Georgia's Antebellum Trail, and is designated as one of the state's Historic Heartland cities.

The nearest state park is Hard Labor Creek, positioned approximately 12 miles west of Madison.

Madison was described in an early 19th century copy of White's Statistics of Georgia as "the most cultured and aristocratic town on the stagecoach route from Charleston to New Orleans." In a 1849 version of White's Statistics of Georgia, the following was written about Madison: "In point of intelligence, refinement, and hospitality, this town acknowledges no superior." On March 12, 1866, the settlement, titled for 4th United States president, James Madison, was incorporated. Historic District of Madison, 2010.

While many believe that Sherman spared the town because it was too beautiful to burn amid his March to the Sea, the truth is that Madison was home to pro-Union Congressman (later Senator) Joshua Hill.

Hill had ties with General William Tecumseh Sherman's brother in the House of Representatives, so his sparing the town was more political than appreciation of its beauty. In 1895 Madison was audited as having in prosperous operation an petroleum foundry with a capital of $35,000, a soap factory, a fertilizer factory, four steam ginneries, a mammoth compress, two carriage factories, a furniture factory, a grist and flouringmill, a bottling works, a distillery with a capacity of 120 gallons a day, an ice factory with a capital of $10,500, a canning factory with a capital of $10,000, a bank with a capital of $75,000, surplus $12,000, and a number of small industries directed by individual enterprise. Madison has one of the biggest historic districts in the state of Georgia, and tourists from all over the world come to marvel at the antebellum architecture of the homes.

Madison is positioned at 33 35 17 N 83 28 21 W (33.588038, -83.472368). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.9 square miles (23 km2), of which, 8.9 square miles (23 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.45%) is water.

Madison is situated on a high ridge which traverses Morgan County from the northeast to the southwest at an altitude of 760 feet. Madison is home to various art arcades and exhibitions.

The Center is situated in an elegantly restored 1895 Romanesque Revival building and is positioned in the heart of Madison's nationally registered Historic District.

The exhibition is positioned a several miles from Madison, towards 'the real' Buckhead.

The Morgan County African American Museum is positioned in Madison.

Heritage Hall is maintained by the Morgan County Historical Society and has been restored for its architectural and historical significance.

Madison is the home of the Southern Cross Guest Ranch, the only dude ranch in Georgia. An autonomously owned and directed cinema, Ricky D's, opened in 2014 and has since closed and was positioned on the square in downtown Madison.

The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum was positioned in Madison.

Madison Museum of Fine Art is also positioned in the city.

The Morgan County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The precinct has 210 full-time teachers and over 3,171 students. George Gordon Crawford (August 24, 1869 March 20, 1936), industrialist, was born in Madison.

Oliver "Ollie" Hardy (born Norvell Hardy) (January 18, 1892 August 7, 1957), comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, lived in Madison as a child where his Mother owned a hotel called The Hardy House. The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center is a preserved Romanesque Revival schoolhouse housing the room where Oliver Hardy attended first grade.

Harris, World War II naval hero was born in Madison.

Bill Hartman (William Coleman "Bill" Hartman, Jr., March 17, 1915 March 16, 2006) the Washington Redskins' running back, started playing American football in Madison.

Joshua Hill (January 10, 1812 March 6, 1891) was a United States Senator who lived in Madison.

During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman, a friend of Hill, did not burn Madison, Georgia on his "March to the Sea".

Eugenius Aristides Nisbet began his practice of law in Madison Georgia, before later being propel as one of the three initial justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1845.

Seaborn Reese (November 28, 1846 March 1, 1907), the American politician, jurist and lawyer, was born in Madison.

Reese filled the seat for Georgia in the United States House of Representatives amid the 47th United States Congress.

Mark Schlabach, the American sports journalist, New York Times best-selling author and columnist and reporter for ESPN.com lives in Madison.

William Tappan Thompson, humorist and writer who co-founded the Savannah Morning News journal in the 1850s, lived in Madison in the 1840s and worked on the city's first newspaper, The Southern Miscellany. Philip Lee Williams (born January 30, 1950), novelist, poet, and essayist, interval up in Madison.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Georgia a b "A fruit paradise"; issued for Madison and Morgan counties, Georgia (1895 ed.).

Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 24, 2010.

The City of Madison site.

City of Madison, GA https://madisonga.com/Document - Center/Home/View/209.

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Wikisource has the text of an 1879 American Cyclop dia article about Madison, Georgia.

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