Tattnall County is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,520. The county seat is Reidsville. Tattnall County was created on December 5, 1801, from part of Montgomery County, Georgia by the Georgia General Assembly. The county was named after Josiah Tattnall (1762–1803), a planter, soldier and politician. It is located within the Magnolia Midlands, a part of the Historic South region.
Liberty County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population is 65,256. The county seat is Hinesville.
Evans County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,000. The county seat is Claxton. A bill creating the county was passed in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11, 1914, and later, on November 3, 1914, an amendment was ratified by a vote of the people which formally created the county.
Collins is a city in Tattnall County, Georgia, United States. The population was 584 at the 2010 census, up from 528 at the 2000 census.
Reidsville is a city in, and county seat of, Tattnall County, Georgia. The population was 4,944 at the 2010 census. The Georgia State Prison is near Reidsville.
USS Tattnall (DDG-19) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile-armed destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore Josiah Tattnall III USN (1794–1871) – also commandant of the CSS Virginia, and an admiral in the Confederate States Navy – who made the adage "blood is thicker than water" a part of American history.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit.
USS Tattnall (DD–125) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Captain Josiah Tattnall III.
Commodore Josiah Tattnall was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War and the Mexican–American War. He later served in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
Josiah Tattnall was an American planter, soldier and politician from Savannah, Georgia. He represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 1796 to 1799, and was the 25th Governor of Georgia in 1801 and 1802. Born near Savannah, Georgia, at Bonaventure Plantation in the early 1760s to Mary Mullryne and Josiah Tattnall, he studied at Eton School before joining Anthony Wayne's troops at Ebenezer during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he was elected brigadier general of the 1st Regiment in the Georgia Militia. He helped to rescind the Yazoo land fraud of 1795. He died in Nassau, New Providence.
Windsor Academy is a private Christian school in Bibb County, Georgia, United States. The school provides education from preschool to high school, primarily following a liberal arts model with Christian influence.
WRBX is a 4900 watt station covering parts of south Georgia. The format is Southern Gospel with a mix of blueglass gospel, classic songs and current top 80 hits.
Tattnall Square Academy (TSA) is a private Christian school located in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was chartered by Tattnall Square Baptist Church in 1969 and has been described at the time of its founding as a segregation academy.
The Tattnall County School District is a public school district in Tattnall County, Georgia, United States, based in Reidsville. It serves the communities of Cobbtown, Collins, Glennville, Manassas, and Reidsville.
This is a list of properties and districts in Tattnall County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
A special election was held in Georgia's 1st congressional district on October 1, 1827 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Edward F. Tattnall (J) prior to the start of the 20th Congress.
William Werkheiser is an American politician, and a 1982 Cum Laud graduate of Georgia Southern University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology. He was elected in 2014 to the Georgia House of Representatives for District 157, which consists of Tattnall, Evans and Wayne counties. Werkheiser has served in the Georgia House of Representatives from the 157th district since 2015.
Bonaventure Plantation was a plantation originally founded in colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia, on land now occupied by Greenwich and Bonaventure cemeteries. The site was 600 acres (2.4 km2), including a plantation house and private cemetery, located on the Wilmington River, about 3.5 miles east of the Savannah colony.
Tattnall Street is a prominent street in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located between Jefferson Street to the west and Barnard Street to the east, it runs for about 0.53 miles (0.85 km) from West Liberty Street in the north to West Gwinnett Street in the south. It passes through the Savannah Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District.
