Saturday, November 07, 2009

Soperton, Georgia

Sunset over railroad tracks in Soperton, Georgia

Soperton, incorporated as a town December 17, 1902, is the county seat and the only incorporated town in Treutlen County. The town is named for Benjamin Franklin Soper, a construction engineer with the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad.

Soperton, Georgia
Treutlen County

Photo: Ed Jackson, courtesy of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia