Editing Valdosta, Georgia (section)

===Incorporation===
Valdosta was incorporated on December 7, 1860,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Malia |date=2023-01-07 |title=Welcome Back: Tours fund Roberts House work |url=https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/welcome-back-tours-fund-roberts-house-work/article_58ad7f6a-8bb3-11ed-bba1-77dc6e0e9bed.html |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Valdosta Daily Times |language=en |quote=Many Troupville residents migrated to nearby Valdosta due to the railroad’s growing potential. Valdosta, a completely new town, was incorporated Dec. 7, 1860.}}</ref> when it was designated by the state legislature as the new county seat, formerly at nearby [[Troupville, Georgia|Troupville]]. The railroad was built to Valdosta that year, rather than Troupville, stimulating development in the new county seat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://valdosta.georgia.gov/05/home/0,2230,8612891,00.html;jsessionid=2AA6BDE2C6D608095EC9E4AACF298E81 |title=Valdosta &#124; Georgia.gov |publisher=Valdosta.georgia.gov |access-date=September 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217004555/http://valdosta.georgia.gov/05/home/0,2230,8612891,00.html;jsessionid=2AA6BDE2C6D608095EC9E4AACF298E81 |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many citizens of Troupville had already relocated to Valdosta when the [[Atlantic and Gulf Railroad (1856–1879)|Atlantic and Gulf Railroad]] was built {{convert|4|mi|0}} away. The engine known as Satilla No. 3 pulled the first train into Valdosta on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad on either July 4, 1860, or on July 20, 1860.<ref>{{cite book |last= Shelton|first= Jane|date= 2007|title= Pines and Pioneers|location= Valdosta, Georgia|publisher= Lowndes County Historical Society|page= 131}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Screven|first= John|date= 15 February 1861|title= Second Report of the President of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad|newspaper= Daily Morning News|location= Savannah, Georgia}}</ref>