Clinch Court House
	Location: Courthouse in Homerville LATITUDE 31.0366 LONGITUDE -82.7488 County: Clinch   Show map of marker location!!
Marker text shows...         CLINCH COURT HOUSE Clinch County was created by an Act of the Legislature approved Feb. 14, 1850 out of lands formerly in Lowndes and Ware Counties and was named for General Duncan L. Clinch, a hero of the War of 1812 and the Indian wars. At the first election held in April, 1850, J.C. Kirkland was elected clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts; Charles Cowart, sheriff; Benjamin Cornelius, tax receiver; Ezekiel J. Sirmans, tax collector, David J. Blackburn, surveyor; Joseph L. Rogers, coroner; David Johnson, Hiram Sears and Manning Smith, justices of the Inferior Court. 032-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953 TDJ