Editing Warrenton, Georgia (section)

==History==
Warrenton was founded in 1797 as seat of Warren County (est. 1793). It was incorporated as a town in 1810 and as a city in 1908.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA252 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=252| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref> The community was named for American Revolutionary War general [[Joseph Warren]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/w.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=247 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

On May 2, 1919, a crowd of three hundred white farmers shot to death and burned the corpse of a black farmer, Benny Richards, who was accused of murdering his own ex-wife.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burning at Stake in the United States: A Record of the Public Burning by Mobs of Five Men, During the First Five Months of 1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfCQH9WudxEC&pg=PA13|year=1986|publisher=Black Classic Press|isbn=978-0-933121-13-3|page=13}}</ref>