GAGenWeb:Jenkins County, GA

Welcome to Jenkins County, Georgia. My name is Marvin Thorpe and I am the county coordinator for Jenkins County and responsible for these county pages. I no longer live in Jenkins County, but spent a formative part of my life here and visit often.

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Jenkins County was formed in 1905; receiving land from Emanuel, Bullock, Burke, and Screven counties. Jenkins County is named after the Georgia State Governor during reconstruction, the Honorable Charles Jones Jenkins.

Jenkins County is bounded by Burke to the North, Screven to the East, Bulloch and Emanuel to the South and West. Jenkins County is well drained by the Ogeechee river and it's numerous tributary creeks. It is traversed by the Central of Georgia and the Millen & Southwestern railroads.

Georgia is divided into 159 counties, any of which may be accessed by going to the Georgia County Table and selecting the desired county from the table listings.

If you have information (copies of deeds, wills, obituaries, old photos, etc) pertanant to Jenkins County that you can share, please send them to me (Marvin Thorpe) so that they may be posted. If you have any problems with this site (broken links, etc.) please let me know.

**Resources**
Place Names	Cemeteries	Churches
Civil War	Lookups	Links
Jenkins Co. History	Jenkins Co. Surnames	Jenkins Co. Resources

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