Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville, Georgia City of Milledgeville Location in Baldwin County and the state of Georgia Location in Baldwin County and the state of Georgia State Georgia Milledgeville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Baldwin County in the U.S.
State of Georgia.
It was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868, prominently amid the American Civil War.
Milledgeville was preceded as the capital town/city by Louisville and was succeeded by Atlanta, the current capital.
The populace of the town of Milledgeville was 18,382 at the 2010 census. Milledgeville is along the route of the Fall Line Freeway, which is under assembly to link Milledgeville with Augusta, Macon, Columbus, and other Fall Line cities.
Milledgeville is the principal town/city of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan region that includes Baldwin and Hancock counties. It had a combined populace of 54,776 at the 2000 census. The Old State Capitol is positioned in the city.
Milledgeville, titled after Georgia governor John Milledge (in office 1802 1806), was established by European Americans at the start of the 19th century as the new centrally positioned capital of the state of Georgia.
In 1803 an act of the Georgia council called for the establishment and survey of a town to be titled in honor of the current governor, John Milledge.
The white populace of Georgia continued to press west and south in search of new farmland, and the town of Milledgeville, carved out of the Oconee wilderness, helped accommodate their needs.
In December 1804 the state council declared Milledgeville the new capital of Georgia.
In 1807 fifteen wagons, escorted by troops, left Louisville, Georgia, the former capital, carrying the treasury and enhance records of the state.
Its pointed arched windows and battlements marked it as the United States' first enhance building in the Gothic revival style. The culmination in 1817 of the Georgia Penitentiary heralded a new era of penal reform. In 1837-1842 the Georgia Lunatic Asylum (later the Central State Hospital) was assembled here.
By 1828 the town claimed 1,599 inhabitants: 789 no-charge whites, 27 no-charge blacks, and 783 black slaves. The town market, where slave auctions took place, was positioned on Capital Square, next to the Presbyterian church.
Two affairs epitomized Milledgeville's status as the political and civil center of Georgia in this period: On January 19, 1861, Georgia convention delegates passed the Ordinance of Secession, and on February 4, 1861, the "Republic of Georgia" joined the Confederate States of America.
In 1868, amid Reconstruction, the state council moved the capital to Atlanta a town/city emerging as the motif of the New South as surely as Milledgeville symbolized the Old South.
Milledgeville struggled to survive as a town/city after losing the company of the capital.
The energetic accomplishments of small-town leaders established the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College (later Georgia Military College) in 1879 on Statehouse Square.
Where the crumbling remains of the old penitentiary stood, Georgia Normal and Industrial College (later Georgia College & State University) was established in 1889.
In part because of these establishments, as well as Central State Hospital, Milledgeville advanced as a less provincial town than many of its neighbors.
In the 1950s the Georgia Power Company instead of a dam at Furman Shoals on the Oconee River, about 5 miles (8 km) north of town, creating a huge reservoir called Lake Sinclair.
In the 1980s and 1990s Milledgeville began to capitalize on its tradition by revitalizing the downtown and historic district.
By 2000 the populace of Milledgeville and Baldwin County combined had grown to 44,700.
Community leaders have made concerted accomplishments to problematic a more diversified economic base, striving to wean the old capital from its dependence on government establishments such as Central State Hospital and state prisons.
The state has recently closed some prisons and reduced jobs at Central State, due to tightening state budgets.
Milledgeville is positioned at 33 5 16 N 83 14 0 W (33.087755, -83.233401) and is 301 feet (92 m) above sea level.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.6 square miles (53.3 km2), of which 20.4 square miles (52.9 km2) is territory and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.74%, is water. Milledgeville is positioned on the Atlantic Seaboard fall line of the United States.
Lake Sinclair, a man-made lake, is about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Milledgeville on the border of Baldwin, Putnam and Hancock counties.
Milledgeville is composed of two chief districts: a heavily commercialized region along the highway known to locals simply as "441," extending from a several blocks north of Georgia College & State University to 4 miles (6 km) north of Milledgeville, and the "Downtown" area, encompassing the college, buildings housing town/city government agencies, various bars and restaurants.
This historic region was laid out in 1803, with streets titled after other counties in Georgia.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 16.0% under the age of 18, 20.9% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Milledgeville City Council is the city's legislative body, with the power to enact all ordinances and resolutions and controls the funding of all designated programs.
The Milledgeville Police Department is the law enforcement agency serving the town/city and its residents.
The department is a progressive law- enforcement agency and earned state certification in 2001 by the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.
The Milledgeville Fire Department provides the Fire and rescue service for the town/city and its residents.
The City of Milledgeville's Fire Department operates out of two fully manned fire stations which are strategically positioned inside the City to minimize response times. Milledgeville's enhance school fitness is governed by the Baldwin County School District.
Georgia Military College prep school (grades 6-12) Central Georgia Technical College Georgia College & State University (commonly known as Georgia College) Georgia Military College Milledgeville's enhance library fitness is part of the Twin Lakes Library System.
Georgia College & State University also has a library.
The school fitness building facilities were revamped amid the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, with all new buildings, including a new Board of Education office.
The concept of a middle school was introduced, whereas previously 6th through 9th grades were homed in separate schools.
Baldwin Middle School (was positioned in old Baldwin High School) Baldwin High School (old location) Carver Elementary School (5th and 6th grades / now an alternate school) National Register of Historic Places listings in Baldwin County, Georgia a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Milledgeville city, Georgia (Revision presented Jan.
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