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Jones County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,669.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13169.html )〕 The county seat is Gray.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created on December 10, 1807 and named after U.S. Representative James Jones. ==History== Jones County along with Morgan County, Putnam County, and Old Randolph were established by an act of the Georgia General Assembly passed on December 10, 1807 from land that had originally been part Baldwin County in 1803 and before that part of the Creek Nation. Jones County was originally bounded by a line running North 56° East to Commissioners Creek, then North 15° West to Cedar Creek, then up the creek to corner Randolph County and Putnam County, then along a line to Ocmulgee River, and then down the river to where the old county line between Wilkinson County and Baldwin County was. This excluded parts of what is now Bibb County east of the Ocmulgee River, including the location of Fort Benjamin Hawkins as they were part of a reserve guaranteed to the Creek Nation. Those areas were later added to Jones County after the Treaty of Indian Springs. During the initial months of existence a town known as Albany served as the county seat of Jones County. Albany's exact location is unknown, but it might have been simply renamed Clinton. Clinton was established as the county seat by the Georgia General Assembly on December 22, 1808. A few years later Clinton became incorporated as a town in 1816. During the 1800s Clinton grew as a center of commerce and the cotton trade. Clinton remained one of the most populous cities in the state of Georgia for the early to middle 1800s. In December 1810 Jones County gained a portion of Putnam County between Cedar Creek and their original borders. In December 1822 Bibb County was established and Jones County lost some of its land to the new county. Before the American Civil War a few factories sprang up in the county including a cotton gin factory at Griswoldville in the southern portion of the county and a woolen factory at Wallace. Griswoldville was founded by Samuel Griswold in the 1850s. During the Civil War, the cotton gin factory at Griswoldville was reformatted so it could produce pistols and other weapons for the Confederate Army. In addition, Griswoldville was located on the railway linking Macon to Savannah. Because of this it became a prime target in 1864 as the Union Army moved into Georgia. On 20 November that year the town and the factories in it were burned as part of Sherman's March to the Sea. Days later the Battle of Griswoldville took place in the area. The town of Griswoldville was not rebuilt. Many other areas in Jones County were damaged by the Union Army during that time period. The Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site in Jones County showcases one of the few and well preserved antebellum plantations in Georgia. In the 1890s a railroad line owned by the Central of Georgia Railway was built through the county and bypassed Clinton by a mile. By the early 1900s the population had shifted eastward and the city of Gray was established. On June 27, 1905 the citizens of Jones County voted on the issues of moving the county seat from Clinton to Gray. The results were 1,289 votes in favor of moving the county seat to Gray and 51 votes for keeping the county seat at Clinton. On August 9, 1905 Gray became the new county seat of Jones County. 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「Jones County, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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