Petersburg, Georgia
Upriver market town located in Wilkes County, Georgia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the community in Gordon County, see Petersburg, Gordon County, Georgia.
Petersburg, Georgia was an upriver market town located in Wilkes County, Georgia, United States (now Elbert County). Now defunct, it was named after Petersburg, Virginia, and founded by Dionysius Oliver in 1786 to serve the rapidly growing Broad River Valley region of Georgia.[1]
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