Editing Taliaferro County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Taliaferro County was formed by an act of the [[Georgia Legislature]] meeting in [[Milledgeville, Georgia|Milledgeville]] on December 24, 1825.[https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlgl_7052628#text] It was formed by taking portions of five other counties: [[Wilkes County, Georgia|Wilkes]], [[Greene County, Georgia|Greene]], [[Hancock County, Georgia|Hancock]], [[Oglethorpe County, Georgia|Oglethorpe]], and [[Warren County, Georgia|Warren]] Counties.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/t.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030917143007/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/t.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2003 |url-status=live| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=219 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> 

The county was named for [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Benjamin Taliaferro]] of [[Virginia]], who was an officer in the [[American Revolution]].

The county is most famous for containing the birthplace and home of [[Alexander H. Stephens]], who served as a U.S. congressman from Georgia in the antebellum South, as vice president of the [[Confederate States of America]] during the Civil War, and as governor of Georgia after the war (dying in office). [[A. H. Stephens State Park]] in [[Crawfordville, Georgia|Crawfordville]] is named after him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A.H. Stephens State Park {{!}} Department Of Natural Resources Division |url=https://gastateparks.org/AHStephens |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=gastateparks.org}}</ref>