Editing McDonough, Georgia (section)

==History==
The town was named for naval officer Commodore [[Thomas Macdonough]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n192 193]}}</ref> and founded in 1823 around a traditional [[town square]] design. The buildings surrounding the square are intact, although there are some vacancies. The county courthouse and historic jail building are on the north side near the Welcome Center in a historically maintained [[Standard Oil]] service station, built in 1920. The station also houses the Main Street Program Office.

One block east of the square, the town's original cotton warehouse has been replaced with the Henry County Judicial Center. In the same area the Henry County Courthouse Annex has an original oil on canvas "Cotton Gin" ({{frac|4|1|2}} by 11 feet) by artist [[Jean Charlot]]. He painted this oil in 1942 for the town post office. His works can be found all over the world in everything from children's books to large murals.

The town was a relay station on the New York City to [[New Orleans]] stagecoach line and was connected by other stage lines with [[Fayetteville, Georgia|Fayetteville]] and [[Decatur, Georgia|Decatur]], and with [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]] by way of [[Jackson, Georgia|Jackson]].<ref name="History of Henry County">{{cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gahenry/History/history.htm |title= History of Henry County|website=www.rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=April 24, 2009}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}</ref>