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The clock tower of the Macon County Courthouse rises over downtown Oglethorpe, the county seat. Oglethorpe was incorporated in 1849 on land first settled by Timothy Barnard, who operated an Indian trading post prior to the Revolutionary War.

Photograph by Sherri Martin, The Citizen Georgian

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