Bulloch was formed by a
legislative act in 1796, after a petition was made to form a new county
out of
Screven and Bryan Counties. Although the county was originally
charted as BULLOCK, the spelling was corrected later to correspond with
its namesake
ARCHIBALD BULLOCH, who was Georgia's first Provincial Governor.
In 1801, George
Sibbald of Augusta donated 200 acres for a centrally located county
seat. More than two years later, in December 1803, the Georgia
legislature created the town of Statesborough, some fifty miles
northwest of Savannah. In
1866 the state legislature granted a permanent charter and changed the
spelling of the name to its present form. The census for 1880 showed 25
residents in the town and 8,053 in the growing county.
In Sherman's march to the sea, the courthouse (a rather crude log
structure was destroyed).
Today's Bulloch County is a thriving county and rapidly growing and expanding, it is believed by some (2004), to be one of the counties to outgrow its counterparts in the coming years.
A Leader of the Revolutionary Movement in Georgia, Speaker of the
Georgia Royal Assembly, Member of the Continental Congress,
President of the Georgia Provincial Congress, First President and
Commander in Chief of Georgia, “Self-sacrificing, valiant, and
influential was he in delivering Georgia from kingly dominion.”
Authorized by General Assembly of Georgia, Sponsored by Georgia
Chapter, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, 1958.
Sculpted by Percy Bryant Baker.
Sources:
Source for Archibald Text and Sculpture