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Douglas is a city in Coffee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,589.〔http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/1323872.html〕 Douglas is the county seat of Coffee County〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and the core city of the Douglas, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 50,731 as of the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Douglas, GA Micro Area )〕 ==History== Douglas was founded in 1855 as the seat of the newly formed Coffee County. It was named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas, a renowned stump speaker and congressman who was the presidential challenger to Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860. Douglas was chartered as a town in 1895 and as a city in 1897. In 1895, the railroad came to Douglas and the community began to boom.〔(City of Douglas - A Georgia City of Excellence. Retrieved 13 May 2008. )〕 In 1909, the Georgia and Florida Railway located its offices in Douglas. The Eleventh District Agricultural & Mechanical School was established in Douglas in 1906. In 1927, South Georgia College became Georgia's first state-supported junior college. During the 1920s and 1930s, Douglas became one of the major tobacco markets in the state. Much of this history is depicted in the Heritage Station Museum, which is located in the old Georgia and Florida Railway train station on Ward Street in downtown Douglas. Douglas has two areas listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the downtown and Gaskin Avenue historic districts. They were added to the list in 1989.〔(georgia.gov - City of Douglas. Retrieved 14 March 2008. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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