>>2695226>The commissioners selected land lot 232 in the 1st District site of the new town of Dublin and on December 13, 1811, the legislature formally designated Dublin as county seat. Jonathan Sawyer, an Irish immigrant, had agreed to donate the land for erection of public buildings providing the town was named for Dublin, Ireland the original home of his wife. The General Assembly incorporated Dublin by an act of December 9, 1812In 1805, John Milledge, one of UGA's trustees and a former Georgia governor, bought 633 acres of land and donated it to the university. He named the newly established town after Athens, Greece — a center of learning in the classical world, home to Plato's Academy
It's usually little things like this
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