Editing Lowndes County, Georgia (section)

===Reconstruction===
In the years right after the Civil War, members of Company "G", 103rd [[United States Colored Troops]] were stationed at Valdosta as part of the military occupation of the South during the Reconstruction era.

Several years after the Civil War, 112 African American men, women, and children moved from Lowndes County to Arthington, [[Liberia]] in 1871 and 1872. Some settled there permanently to make their home in a colony established for free American blacks; a small number returned to the United States. Their emigration was supported by the [[American Colonization Society]], which had been working since the antebellum years to relocate free blacks to this new colony in West Africa.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lowndes County Emigrants|url=https://www.valdosta.edu/academics/library/depts/archives-and-special-collections/regional-history/liberia-emigrants.php|website=Valdosta.edu Regional History|access-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref> African Americans dominated the new colony (and future country) both socially and politically well into the 20th century before indigenous peoples, the majority within the borders of the country, came to power.

Prior to 1872, the southern border of Lowndes County and of Georgia was slightly farther south. The border when Lowndes County was created was along what was called McNeil's Line. A dispute over the border between the states of Florida and Georgia later developed (see ''[[Florida v. Georgia (1855)|Florida v. Georgia]]''). In 1857, the governors of the two states appointed surveyors for a joint survey of the border. This led to the creation of the Orr and Whitney Line, which was agreed to by the United States Congress on April 9, 1872.