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| Georgia (Laurens County), Dudley — The Oconee Electric Membership Corporation — Dudley, Georgia — Incorporated November 18, 1938 | | | To honor the founders whose vision transformed this rural area from darkness to the splendor of light; who serve as our reminder that no job is too difficult
if the cause is just and the people are determined. Incorporators:
Paul J. Jones Joseph R. Lord T.C. Waldrep James L. Whitaker J.L. Allen M.B. Beall G.C. Ingram (Project Superintendent) — Map (db m14562) | | Georgia (Laurens County), East Dublin — 087-1 — Governor Troup's Home | | | Here lived George Michael Troup, Governor of Georgia 1823-27. Born in 1780 at McIntosh's Bluff on the Tombigbee River in a part of Georgia that is now
Alabama, he graduated at Princeton, 1797, and was admitted to the bar at Savannah, 1800. He served in the Georgia Legislature 1801-03, U.S. Congress
1807-15, and U.S. Senate 1816-18 and 1829-33.
When the Federal government failed to carry out its agreement to remove the Indians from Georgia, Troup in 1825 warned the President: "We have . . . — Map (db m11692) |
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