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Bulloch History with Roger Allen: Statesboro named in honor of Thomas Jefferson
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the founding and general history of southeast Georgia and Bulloch County. The town of Statesboro was thought to have been named to honor Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy of “States Rights.” Statesboro was made the county seat of Bulloch County in 1803.
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