Editing Jacksonville, Georgia (section)

==History==
Jacksonville was the original [[county seat]] of Telfair County. Land lot 340 in land district 8 was declared to be the permanent county seat in 1814. On November 25, 1815, the Georgia General Assembly declared that the new county seat be named Jacksonville after the hero of the recent [[Battle of New Orleans]], [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacksonville |url=https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/jacksonville/ |access-date=December 18, 2024 |website=Georgia Historical Society}}</ref> At the time it was located in the center of the county, but when [[Coffee County, Georgia|Coffee County]] was created from the part of Telfair County below the [[Ocmulgee River]] in 1854, the town became near the southwestern boundary of the county. In 1856, a referendum was called for the change of the county seat. The results are unknown, but the county seat remained at Jacksonville until after the [[American Civil War]].

In 1871, the seat was transferred from Jacksonville to [[McRae, Georgia|McRae]], which had been established as a station on the [[Macon and Brunswick Railroad]] a year before.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA239 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | accessdate=November 30, 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=239| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

The world record largemouth bass was caught near Jacksonville on June 2, 1932, by George Perry.