Ellaville is a city in Schley County,

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, United States. The population was 1,812 at the 2010 census. The city is the

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of Schley County. Ellaville is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.

History

A town named Pond Town was established in 1812 along the stage coach in the area that is now the location of the Ellaville City Cemetery. The area was then part of the lands belonging to the

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. In 1821, after the Treaty of Indian Springs the area became part of the state of Georgia. In 1826, it served as temporary county seat for Lee County upon the creation of the then vast county. Pond Town soon became a lively town noted for horse racing and whiskey. In 1831, the area became part of Sumter County. Ellaville was founded in 1857 as county seat of the newly formed Schley County. It was incorporated as a town in 1859. The community was named after the daughter of a first settler.

Lynchings

*Hanging of Charles Blackman, The hanging of Charles Blackman occurred in Ellaville, Georgia, on January 25, 1889 *In January 1911 a white man died in a Black owned store. He was taken for his own safety to Columbus for three months but when he returned three months later a mob 200 strong lynched Dawson Jordan, Charles Pickett, and Murray Burton as well as burning down three black lodges, a church and a school. *October 1912, a prisoner seized from the Sumter County sheriff near Oglethorpe was hung from a bridge and shot dead *June 1913, twenty-four-year-old Will Redding was dragged from the Ellaville's city jail strung up on a street corner and riddled with bullets. *Lynching of Will Jones, Will Jones was lynched in Ellaville, Georgia by a white mob on February 13, 1922.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,595 people, 610 households, and 438 families residing in the city.

Education

Schley County School District

The Schley County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of one elementary school and one middle-high school. The district has 66 full-time teachers and over 1,126 students.School Stats
Retrieved June 26, 2010. *Schley County Elementary School *Schley Middle High School

Infrastructure

Ellaville is served by U.S. Route 19 in Georgia, U.S. Route 19, Georgia State Route 26 and Georgia State Route 153.

Notable people

*Dakota Albritton, Dakota "Stilts" Albritton, American baseball player for the Savannah Bananas * Brent Cobb, singer * Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives *Blaire Erskine, comedian * Quentin Fulks, campaign manager * Caylee Hammack, singer *Rosa Lee Ingram, subject of 1940's Civil Rights struggle against unfair trials and sentencing in the Jim Crow Era. * William J. Sears, United States House of Representatives, Congressman from Florida

References

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