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African American citizens of Fitzgerald, the seat of Ben Hill County, are pictured in 1896, the year of the town's founding by Union veterans. The men in the background are wearing cards on their hats that name the states from which they came.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # ben136.

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