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    Jonesboro (/ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə/) is a city in and the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,724 as of the 2010 census. The...
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  • Jonesboro High School is a four-year public high school located in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States. The school is part of the Clayton County School...
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    portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2021, the population was estimated to be 297,100 by the Census Bureau. The county seat is Jonesboro. Clayton...
    33 KB (2,674 words) - 10:14, 14 July 2024
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    Jonesboro (/ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə/) is a town in, and the parish seat of, Jackson Parish in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population...
    20 KB (1,544 words) - 08:38, 15 May 2024
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    side of Jonesboro. Some street signs on the northern bypass, now the SR 138 mainline, still incorrectly refer to the road as "Spur 138". Georgia (U.S...
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    poverty line, including 5.2% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over. Georgia State Route 54 (Jonesboro Road) These are roads with more...
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    Lake Spivey (category Bodies of water of Clayton County, Georgia)
    (240 ha)) private lake located in Clayton County and Henry County, Georgia near Jonesboro. The lake was created by Dr. Walter Boone Spivey, a prominent Buckhead...
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    town of Jonesboro. Riverdale is in western Clayton County, 12 miles (19 km) south of downtown Atlanta and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Jonesboro, the...
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    film Smokey and the Bandit was filmed primarily in Georgia in the cities of McDonough, Jonesboro and Lithonia. Xpress GA provides local bus service....
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  • in the southern and western portions of the Atlanta metropolitan area and includes the cities of Austell, Jonesboro, Mableton, Douglasville, Stockbridge...
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    S. Truett Cathy (category People from Jonesboro, Georgia)
    Church of Jonesboro, Georgia, for over 50 years. He said that the Bible is his guidebook for life. Due to his strong religious beliefs, all of the company's...
    19 KB (1,699 words) - 16:53, 4 May 2024
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    AR 226 west toward Swifton, Arkansas. The route goes through towns of Cash, Jonesboro, Lake City, Black Oak, Monette, Manila, Blytheville, Marion, and West...
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    "The Fair of 1850" on old Highway 41 in Jonesboro, Georgia, about twenty miles south of Atlanta. For West, the Fair was the Deep South version of Williamsburg...
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    Allen D. Candler (category People from Jonesboro, Georgia)
    the war, Candler settled in Jonesboro, Georgia, then Gainesville, Georgia. He turned to farming, then politics; he was one of many conservative Democrats...
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    Lake Jodeco (category Bodies of water of Clayton County, Georgia)
    County, Georgia, east of Jonesboro, Georgia. The area now known as Lake Jodeco was once inhabited by the Muskogee Creek Nation. Prior to the end of World...
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  • Germanicus Young Tigner (category People from Jonesboro, Georgia)
    Haralson, Georgia. Son of Senator William Archelaus Tigner and Eugenia R Tigner (née Dozier). He was educated in private schools in Jonesboro and Atlanta...
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    of Georgia is divided into 159 counties, the second-highest number after Texas, which has 254 counties. Under the Georgia State Constitution, all of its...
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  • Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery (category Protected areas of Clayton County, Georgia)
    is a memorial cemetery located in the city of Jonesboro, Georgia, United States. It was named in honor of General Patrick Cleburne. This cemetery was...
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    Alonzo Herndon (category People from Jonesboro, Georgia)
    first barbershop in Jonesboro, Georgia. His barbering business thrived, and he expanded it over the years. After starting in the shop of another black man...
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  • Annie Fitzgerald Stephens (category Businesspeople from Georgia (U.S. state))
    Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 326. ISBN 9780820328768. Historical Jonesboro/Clayton...
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