Marion
Marion, incorporated in 1816, was the first county seat of Twiggs County. Named for General Francis Marion, the Revolutionary `Swamp Fox`, it was a trading center and metropolis in ante bellum days. Its decline began when residents refused to accept the `intrusion of the iron horse` after the original survey of the Central Railroad routed the line through Marion. In 1868 the county site was moved six miles to Jeffersonville. Residents moved away, leaving a dead town and large abandoned homes.
U.S. Geodetic Survey in 1948 established this vicinity as the exact center of Georgia.
GHM 143-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Scooter Bill.