Editing Jesup, Georgia (section)

==History==
By February 1869, Willis Clary had begun building a two-story hotel near the junction of [[Macon and Brunswick Railroad]] and the [[Atlantic and Gulf Railroad (1856–79)|Atlantic and Gulf Railroad]] and four stores had sprung up in the area.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= A Visit to Macon and Brunswick Railroad|url= http://telegraph.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph/view?docId=bookreader/mdt/mdt1869/mdt1869-0188.mets.xml#page/n0/mode/1up|work= Macon Daily Telegraph|location= Macon, Georgia|date= 28 February 1869|access-date= 14 January 2018}}</ref> Clary became a driving force for the establishment of what would become Jesup and was its first mayor.

By September 1869, the town included five stores, a sawmill, and a railroad eating house in addition to Clary's hotel.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= From Brunswick|url= http://telegraph.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph/view?docId=bookreader/mdt/mdt1869/mdt1869-0880.mets.xml#page/n0/mode/1up|work= Macon Daily Telegraph|location= Macon, Georgia|date= 23 September 1869|access-date= 14 January 2018}}</ref> By December 1869 the community had become known as Jesup.

Jesup was named for [[Thomas Jesup]], a general during the Second Seminole War.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/j.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=121 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

The area was then part of [[Appling County, Georgia]]. On August 27, 1872, eastern sections of Appling land districts 3 and 4 were added to [[Wayne County, Georgia|Wayne County]].<ref>{{cite book|author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title= Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed at its Session in July and August, 1872.|volume= 1|url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=44469205|page= 387|access-date= August 19, 2016|archive-date= October 2, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181002200330/http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=44469205|url-status= dead}}</ref> In 1873, the seat of Wayne County was transferred to Jesup from Waynesville.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA234 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | page=234| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

In 2021, Rose Marcus made history by becoming the first African American City Manager and first African American female City Manager for the City of Jesup in Jesup, GA.