City of Whitesburg - Carroll County

Georgia's 66th county was named for Charles Carroll of Maryland, at that time the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. (Carroll died in 1832 at the age of 95.)

Carrollton, the county seat, was named for Charles Carroll's Maryland plantation.

The Italian Renaissance Revival county courthouse, built in 1928 and enlarged in 1976, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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