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==History== The town was originally named for the influential Creek-Seminole leader [[Osceola]].<ref name="cityofbogart.com">City of Bogart. "About Bogart." Accessed September 27, 2016. http://www.cityofbogart.com/?page_id=103</ref> In 1892, the city was renamed Bogart in honor of a locally respected railroad agent after learning that another Georgia community, in [[Terrell County, Georgia|Terrell County]], was also called Osceola.<ref name="cityofbogart.com" /> Bogart was once part of Franklin County, then [[Jackson County, Georgia|Jackson County]], and now sits in [[Oconee County, Georgia|Oconee County]] with a small portion located in [[Clarke County, Georgia|Clarke County]].<ref name="Luke, Janet 1982">Luke, Janet. The History of Bogart, Georgia. Bogart: Kinko's, 1982.</ref> Many of the settlers who came to Bogart, came in during the [[Georgia Land Lotteries|Land Lottery of 1820]].<ref name="Luke, Janet 1982" /> When the train from Athens to Atlanta was built in the 1890s, life flourished in Bogart.<ref name="Luke, Janet 1982" /> The city of Bogart was incorporated in 1905.<ref name="cityofbogart.com" /> The thriving city had a bank, a mercantile store, a boarding house, a drug store, a railroad depot, three cotton gins, a post office, blacksmith shops, a school, several churches, and gristmills.<ref name="cityofbogart.com" />
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