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2,327
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$30,595
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America/New_York
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Sylvania, GA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Sylvania a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Sylvania Home page. The Sylvania Home page provides as much information as possible on Sylvania. Knowing Sylvania’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sylvania’s Home page, you will also find Sylvania’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Sylvania has a population of 2327. 39.9% of Sylvania’s inhabitants are Male, and 60.1 are female. 37.6% of Sylvania is married and 59.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $88,764, and the average rent is $460. Household median income in Sylvania is $30,595, and the individual median income is $20,000. Sylvania’s Ethnic is the following: White(51.7%), Black(44.8%), Hispanic(4.6%), Multiple(1.5%), Asian(1.1%), Other(0.9%), Native(0.1%).
The area was inhabited for thousands of years by various cultures of indigenous peoples. By the time of European encounter, it was occupied by the Yuchi peoples, but some Creeks, the Uchee's allies, moved into the area during Colonial times.The town of Sylvania was founded in 1790 by settlers migrating to the area after the American Revolutionary War.
The word "Sylvania" comes from the Latin word sylvan or sylva which means "forest land" or "place in the woods."Sylvania was part of the Black Belt of Georgia, developed for cultivation after the cotton gin made it easier to handle short-fiber cotton. Cotton was the most important commodity crop until late in the 19th century.
Planters imported many enslaved African Americans to cultivate the crops. By 1830 the county was filled with people. The county seat was moved from Jacksonborough to Sylvania in 1847.As part of the projects of the Works Progress Administration, federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.
In 1941, Caroline Speare Rohland painted a mural for the post office of Sylvania. The scene depicted was of a farming family and their African American farm hand. In the 1980s, complaints from the local NAACP chapter resulted in the removal of the mural. It was found in a closet of the post office in 1995 and restored.
The mural is now on permanent loan from the federal government and is held by Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.Sherman's army moved through the area during the Civil War. Sylvania calls itself the "Azalea and Dogwood City" and the "Welcome Station City."
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