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Douglas, GA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Douglas a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Douglas Home page. The Douglas Home page provides as much information as possible on Douglas. Knowing Douglas’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Douglas’s Home page, you will also find Douglas’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Douglas has a population of 11556. 46.4% of Douglas’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.6 are female. 34% of Douglas is married and 46.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $108,727, and the average rent is $634. Household median income in Douglas is $34,112, and the individual median income is $20,532. Douglas’s Ethnic is the following: White(50%), Black(44.6%), Hispanic(10%), Other(3.6%), Multiple(1.7%), Asian(0.1%).
Douglas was founded in 1855 as the seat of the newly formed Coffee County. It was named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois, a renowned stump speaker who was the challenger to Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.Douglas was chartered as a town in 1895 and as a city in 1897. In 1895, the railroad came to Douglas and the community began to boom.
In 1909, the Georgia and Florida Railway located its offices in Douglas. The Eleventh District Agricultural & Mechanical School was established in Douglas in 1906. In 1927, South Georgia College was founded as Georgia's first state-supported junior college. During the 1920s and 1930s, Douglas was one of the major tobacco markets in the state.
Much of this history is depicted in the Heritage Station Museum, located in the former Georgia and Florida Railway train station on Ward Street in downtown Douglas. Douglas has two areas listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the downtown and Gaskin Avenue historic districts. They were added to the list in 1989.
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