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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.