Editing Cuthbert, Georgia (section)

==History==
Cuthbert was founded by European Americans in 1831 as seat of the newly formed Randolph County, after [[Indian Removal]] of the historic tribes to [[Indian Territory]] west of the [[Mississippi River]]. [[John Alfred Cuthbert]], who represented Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821, is its namesake.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=56 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n97 98]}}</ref> The county was developed for cotton plantations, the major commodity crop, and the rural area had a high proportion of enslaved African-American workers. Cuthbert was incorporated as a town in 1834 and as a city in 1859, serving as the trading center for the area. The [[Central of Georgia Railway]] arrived in Cuthbert in the 1850s, stimulating trade and growth, and providing a means of getting cotton and other crops to market.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA226 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=226| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

A few years before 2022, the city's hospital closed.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Georgia's rural Black voters helped propel Democrats before. Will they do it again? |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122118393/georgia-abrams-warnock-rural-black-voters-elections-democrats-midterms |access-date=2022-09-14}}</ref>