Editing Toombs County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Toombs County was founded as the 144th county in Georgia by the [[Georgia General Assembly|State Legislature]] on August 18, 1905, and organized on October 9 of that year. The county was originally formed from portions of [[Tattnall County, Georgia|Tattnall]] and [[Montgomery County, Georgia|Montgomery]] Counties; a small piece of [[Emanuel County, Georgia|Emanuel County]] was added in 1907 to give Toombs County its present-day boundaries.

The county is named for [[Robert Toombs]], [[United States House of Representatives|United States representative]] and [[United States Senate|senator]].<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=228 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> During the Civil War, Toombs also served in the Confederate Provisional Congress, as Secretary of State of the Confederate States, and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.