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Comté de Sumter: Le palais de justice d'Americus, siège du comté. Administration; Pays: États-Unis: État: Géorgie: Chef-lieu: Americus: Fondation 1831 Démographie; Population: 32 819 hab. (2010) Densité: 26 hab./km 2: Géographie; Coordonnées: 32° 02′ nord, 84° 12′ ouest: Superficie: 125 700 ha = 1 257 km 2: Superficie ...
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Foundation and antebellum years
Sumter County was established by an act of the state legislature on December 26, 1831, four years after the Creek Indians were forced from the region when the state acquired the territory from them in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. Sumter, the state's 80th county, was created after population increases by a division of Lee County, now situated to its south. The county was named for former General and United States Senator Thomas Sumter (1734–1832) of South Carolina. When the county was or...
Civil War years
During the American Civil War (1861–65), the small village named Andersonville, 9 mi (14 km) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner-of-war camp. The Andersonville prison was built in neighboring Macon County, and became the largest such prison in the South. During the camp's 14 months of operations, some 45,000 Union prisoners suffered some of the worst conditions and highest casualties of any of the camps. Today, th...
Into modernity
Other areas of the county have attracted national attention in the 20th century for very different reasons. In 1942, two Baptist ministers chose a farm in the western part of the county as the location for a Christian commune named Koinonia, where Black and White workers lived and worked together for nearly 50 years, generating some hostility among local residents during its early years. Sumter County counts a U.S. president among its native sons. Jimmy Carter was born and raised on a peanut...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 493 sq mi (1,280 km2), of which 483 sq mi (1,250 km2) are land and 10 sq mi (26 km2) (2.0%) are covered by water. Muckalee Creek flows through Sumter County, which also contains Lake Blackshear and Kinchafoonee Creek. The western two-thirds of Sumter County, from northeast of Ameri...
Cities
1. Americus(county seat) 2. Andersonville 3. De Soto 4. Leslie 5. Plains
Unincorporated community
1. Cobb
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 29,616 people, 11,510 households, and 7,256 families residing in the county.
Sumter remains largely a rural county. According to USDA/Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service 2001 figures, cotton remains its major crop, with up to 35,000 acres (140 km2) under cultivation, followed by wheat, peanuts, and corn, which when combined, roughly equal the county's acreage in cotton. Its major employers include Cooper Lighting, Georg...
Sumter County is a swing county in presidential elections. Since 1960, it has voted Democratic eight times, including in 1976, when Sumter County native Jimmy Carter was elected, Republican six times, and for a third-party candidate (George Wallace) once. The last candidate to carry the county by more than 10 points was Bill Clintonin 1996. The cou...
Sumter County School Districtoperates public schools. Southland Academyis a private school in Americus.
Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).Jack F. Cox, History of Sumter County, Georgia(Roswell, Ga.: W. H. Wolfe, 1983).Freedomways: A Newsletter of the Prison and Jail Project(Americus, Ga.: Koinonia Partners, 1995– ).William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).Comtés de l'État de Géorgie. L' État américain de Géorgie est divisé en 159 comtés ( counties ). Liste des comtés. Catégories : Comté en Géorgie (États-Unis) Liste de comtés des États-Unis. Liste en rapport avec la Géorgie (États-Unis) [+]
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