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SOCIAL CIRCLE JUBILEE NAMING OF THE SQUARES AND STREETS The squares at Social Circle Jubilee are names after famous historic persons from Walton County who lived during the period of the American Revolution. Streets are named after significant and and often colorful places in the county during this period. Walton Square George Walton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was Secretary of the first Provincial Congress of Georgia 1775, delegate to the Continental Congress, and Colonel in the Georgia Militia. Crawford Square William H. Crawford was Secretary of Treasury, Minister to France, US Senator, an intellectual, friend of Napoleon who believed that he should been president of the US in place of James Monroe. Dabney-Harris Square Austin Dabney, a mulatto, took his master’s place in the Revolutionary Army. He fought bravely and was wounded at the battle of Kettle Creek. Giles Harris, a white man, came to his rescue and his family nursed Dabney back to health. For his valor, the US Government gave Dabney 500 acres, which allowed him to become middle-class. Dabney paid for Gile’s son, William’s collage and law school education. The two families became friends for life, are buried next to each other, and the DAR has a monument to them. Ignatius Few Square Ignatius Few II, a religious skeptic in his youth was converted and became a Methodist Minister. He founded Emory University. McGillivray Square Alexander McGillivray, a half-breed Indian was the son of a wealthy Scottish treader who sympathized with the British and fled to England. Charismatic, highly educated and diplomatic, Alexander became Chief of the Creek Indian Nation. He negotiated with George Washington the Treaty of New York that settled the Creek Indian war, and was given the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. James Jackson Square James Jackson was a Revolutionary general, US Senator, Governor of Georgia, “A fiery patriot whose dueling pistols had little time to rust”. Lucy Cobb Square A significant early author and founder of the Lucy Cobb Institute. Lumpkin Square Wilson Lumpkin was a governor.