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Wilcox County, Georgia
December 22, 1857 Wilcox County created
  Creation of Georgia Counties
  Wilcox County, Georgia
April 23, 1971 Two waves of storms, which included tornadoes that registered F3 on the Fujita-Pearson scale, swept through Georgia destroying more than a million dollars in property, killing one person and injuring 23. Counties affected were Polk, Gwinnett, Douglas, Dekalb, Carroll, Screven, Paulding, Randolph, Houstoun, Troup, Macon, Dooly, Sumter, Chatham, Lanier, Tattnall, and Wilcox.
  Wilcox County, Georgia
  Douglas County, Georgia
  Georgia Tornadoes


Name derivation:Named in honor of Mack Wilcox, who served in the state legislature and founded the state supreme court
Acquisition: Creek cession of Aug. 9, 1814 and Jan. 22, 1818
Taken from:an original county
Counties created from: Ben Hill County, Turner County
Cities: Abbeville (county seat), Pineview, Pitts and Rochelle

Web sites:National Register of Historic Places in Wilcox County, Georgia
Wilcox County, Georgia, links
Map of Wilcox County, Georgia
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