UGA Cooperative Extension
Seminole County Extension Office:
Agriculture & Natural Resources
County History
Seminole County, created in 1920 from Decatur and Early counties, occupies the extreme southwest corner of the state of Georgia. The county seat of Donalsonville, incorporated in 1897, was named for John Earnest Donalson (1846-1920), a prominent resident of the area whose Irish ancestors pioneered in Decatur County.
The County was named for the Seminole Indians, part of the Muskhogean tribe that once occupied the lower Chattahoochee River Valley. Members of the Lower Creek Confederacy, the Seminoles (meaning "Separatist") left the main body of Georgia and Settled in Florida. After two bloody wars, 1817-1818 and 1835-1842, during which their chief, Osceola, was more than a match for the US Army, the majority were moved to western reservations, but several escaped to the Everglades.
Contact County Extension Coordinator Rome Ethredge at ethredge@uga.edu or
call (229) 524-2326.
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Ag Links
- Agriculture & Natural Resources | UGA Cooperative Extension at CAES
- Computer Decision Aids
- Entomology
- State Wide Variety Test
- Southern Region Small Fruit Resources
- UGA Beef Programs
- UGA Irrigation Pubs and Resources
- UGA Turf Page
- UGA Urban Ag Home Page
- UGA Urban AG Landscape Line Newsletter
- UGA Weed Science
Other Useful Links
- CDMS- Chemical Label Resource
- Center for Agribuisness & Development
- Farmer Computer Portal
- Georgia Weather Net System
- Georgia Agribusiness Council
- Pesticide Certification Information
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