Editing Social Circle, Georgia (section)

==History==
It is unclear why the name "Social Circle" was applied to this place.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/s.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=208 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> According to tradition, Social Circle was named from an incident in which a group of people living in the settlement offered water to a weary traveler, whose response was "This certainly is a social circle".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=126|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=122}}</ref> The city also officially notes that a citizen of another village community which was already known by the name of Social Circle joined the settlement in its early days.<ref name="SocialCircleGA">{{cite web|url=https://socialcirclega.gov/social-circle-history/|title=Social Circle History|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>

Social Circle was incorporated as a town in 1869, and as a city in 1904.<ref name="SocialCircleGA" />