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including the area
around Brownsborough.
After the Revolution,
residents disagreed as to
whether Augusta or
Brownsborough should be the
county seat of...
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eastern half of today's county. The
settlement was
referred to as "
Brownsborough", but
after the area was
formally platted in 1856 by
James Kerr, a major...
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Financed by £3,000 of
family capital, he
established the
community of
Brownsborough and a 5,600 acre
plantation northeast of present-day Augusta, anti****ting...
- 33°34′08″N 82°25′57″W / 33.5690°N 82.4326°W / 33.5690; -82.4326
Brownsborough 1790
Competing county seat.
Kiokee 1790s
Appling 1792 De jure county...
- Cherokee,
Thomas Brown, was not
nearly so fortunate. In his home of
Brownsborough, Georgia, near Augusta, he was ****aulted by a
crowd of the Sons of Liberty...
- the
newly Ceded Lands above Augusta and
founded a
settlement called Brownsborough. He
attracted the
anger of the
Whigs by
publicly denouncing the ****ociation...
- R. Brown, who
owned the land at this location. A post
office called Brownsborough opened here in 1873. John
Bilger was the
first postmaster. The post...
- the area in 1848. They
remained this time,
naming their settlement Brownsborough.
Settlers followed them to the camp and
established sawmills and farms...
