Editing Bryan County, Georgia (section)

== History ==
Bryan County was created on December 19, 1793, named after [[Jonathan Bryan]] (1708–1788), an [[American Revolutionary War]] partisan.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/b.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030917072724/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/b.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2003 |url-status=live | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=27 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

South Bryan County is home to the earthen [[American Civil War|Civil War]] installation Fort McAllister (now [[Fort McAllister Historic Park]]) which Gen. [[William Sherman]] captured on his [[Sherman's March to the Sea|March to the Sea]].

The colonial town of [[Hardwick, Bryan County, Georgia|Hardwick]], laid out in 1755, served as the initial county seat. In 1797, the [[Georgia General Assembly]] moved the county seat to Cross Roads near modern [[Richmond Hill, Georgia|Richmond Hil]]. On November 18, 1814, the county seat was moved to Mansford on the [[Canoochee River]].<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia; Passed in October and November, 1814.|volume= 1|url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=3064054|pages= 46–47}}</ref> In 1860, the seat was known as Eden. By the 1880s the county seat was known as Bryan. By 1895 it was in [[Clyde, Georgia|Clyde]], which may have been the same location formerly known as Eden and Mansford. Clyde served as the seat to 1935; in 1937 Pembroke took on that role. The only remaining sign of Clyde is a cemetery on the [[Fort Stewart]] [[U.S. Army]] installation.