Name derivation:Named in honor of Augustus Octavius Bacon, member of the Georgia House and the U. S. Senate, where he served as President pro tem.
Acquisition:
Taken from:Appling County, GA, Pierce County, GA and Ware County, GA
Counties created from: None
Cities: Alma (county seat)
Web sites:
National Register of Historic Places in Bacon County, Georgia
Bacon County, Georgia, links

History and Description:The county seat's name, Alma, is derived from the first letters of Georgia's capitals, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville and Atlanta.

The soda fountain at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta is a recreation of a Baxley soda fountain where Caroline Miller wrote her 1934 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Lamb in His Bosom.