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===The fight for the county seat=== The county was slow in developing and those in the area were in no hurry to be concerned with matters governmental. On December 8, 1806, the Georgia General Assembly created appointed five commissioners to establish a permanent site for a county seat and called for county court to be held at the home of one those commissioners, Roberta Smallwood, until a permanent site could be established.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed at Louisville, in November and December, 1806.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=968977|location= Louisville, Georgia|page= 29}}</ref> In December 1808, the General Assembly called for a new set of commissioners to select a county seat, as the site picked by the previous set had picked a site near the upper corner of the county and was not centrally located. Court was to be held at the house of a Captain William Clements until a site was selected.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Passed at Milledgeville, at an Annual Session, in November and December, 1808.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=1472306|location= Milledgeville, Georgia|page= 88 }}</ref> In December 1823, the General Assembly appointed another board of commissioners to establish a county seat.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed at Milledgeville, at an Annual session; in November and December, 1823.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=6366678|location= Milledgeville, Georgia}}</ref> The first post office in Wayne County was established at Tuckersville, sometimes seen as Tuckerville, on January 29, 1814. Tuckersville acted as the county seat until Waynesville was so designated. John Tucker was the first postmaster and his service was followed by William A. Knight and Robert Stafford Jr. before the mail service was discontinued in 1827. Tuckersville disappears from most maps by 1850. Its exact location remains a mystery although it is known it was 9 miles north of Waynesville on the [[Post Road]] near the ford of [[Buffalo Swamp]]. The intersection of Mount Pleasant Road and 10 Mile Road is a possible location. It was not until December 1829, that legislative action created a county seat.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed in Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December, 1829.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=10031846|location= Milledgeville, Georgia }}</ref> Wayne County's first official county seat was [[Waynesville, Georgia]] then considered to be a central location in the long and narrow county for settlers to travel for court and other primary government functions. Waynesville was the site of Wayne County's first school, which was called Mineral Springs Academy. It was named for the famous mineral springs which were a short distance east of the residential section of the town. In December 1832, a petition of voters from Wayne County caused the General Assembly to call for the election of another board of commissioners to establish a centrally located county seat.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed in Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December, 1832.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=11991701|location= Milledgeville, Georgia|page= 47 }}</ref> In the early 1840s, Waynesville was still being used as the county seat. In December 1847, the General Assembly called for another set of commissioners to select a county seat near the home of William Flowers near the ford of the Buffalo Swamp. The law also called for county court to be held at the courthouse then in existence near the residence of James Rawlinson.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the State of Georgia 1847.|volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=23413208 |page= 76 }}</ref> In January 1856, the General Assembly called for a vote to be held in Wayne County about the removal of the county seat and to where it should be removed.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Passed in Milledgeville, at a Bi-ennial Session, in November, December, January, February & March, 1855-'56. |volume= 1 |url= http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=9e0115c1-1e87c56357-0346&type=law&byte=30652222 |location= Milledgeville, Georgia|page= 415}}</ref>
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