Appling is an unincorporated town in and the de jure county seat of Columbia County, Georgia, United States. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. A county seat is a term for an Administrative center for a County, primarily used in the United States. Columbia County is a County located in the US state of Georgia. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1]

Appling was formerly considered an incorporated city but, with the 1993 passage of legislation requiring incorporated cities to provide at least three municipal services, Appling was not able to maintain its status as an incorporated city. It was one of 187 inactive cities in Georgia that lost its charter on 1 June 1995. Events 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is Assassinated 987 - Hugh Capet is elected ^[2] There was question as to whether it had ever been incorporated at all since it had no functioning corporate authorities. ^[3][4]

Columbia County government and judicial offices are in Evans, Georgia with the Columbia County Government Center, the Government Complex Addition, and the Columbia County Courthouse Annex all located there. Evans is a Census-designated place (CDP in Columbia County, Georgia and is an Affluent suburb of Augusta Georgia. Appling retains its status as county seat but all governmental functions are carried out in Evans. ^[2]

Contents 1 Geography 2 Demographics 3 History 4 Notes

Geography

Appling is located at 33°32′45″N 82°18′57″W / 33.54583, -82.31583Coordinates: 33°32′45″N 82°18′57″W / 33.54583, -82.31583^[5]. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.

Appling lies along U.S. Route 221 (Appling-Harlem Road) and is traversed by (Great) Kiokee Creek. US Route 221 is a spur of US Route 21. It runs for 734 miles (1181 km from Lynchburg Virginia at U

Demographics

The following information applies to ZIP code Tabulation Area 30802, which is centered immediately south of Appling. The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS

As of the census^[6] of 2000, there were 5,177 people, 1,745 households, and 1,387 families residing in the area. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population There were 1,745 housing units in the area. The racial makeup of the area was 76. 0% White, 21. 5% African American, 0. 6% Native American, 0. 6% Asian, 0. 1% Pacific Islander, 0. 5% from other races, and 0. 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 1% of the population.

There were 1,745 households out of which 37. 7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64. 4% were married couples living together, 11. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** 3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20. 5% were non-families. 16. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2. 83 and the average family size was 3. 20.

The population was spread out with 26. 6% under the age of 18, 7. 5% from 18 to 24, 29. 8% from 25 to 44, 24. 4% from 45 to 64, and 11. 7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37. 3 years. For every 100 females there were 98. 0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94. 7 males.

The median income for a household in the community was $40,467, and the median income for a family was $53,207. Males had a median income of $38,929 versus $21,700 for females. The per capita income for the community was $20,893. Per capita income means how much each individual receives in monetary terms of the yearly income generated in the country About 4. 9% of families and 5. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6. The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of Income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate Standard of living in a given country 5% of those under age 18 and 13. 1% of those age 65 or over.

History

Main article: Columbia County, Georgia#History

In 1816, the town known as Columbia Courthouse was chartered as the Town of Appling, named for the family of William Appling that had donated the land to the county and for Colonel John Appling, a local resident that had died in a campaign against the Seminoles. Columbia County is a County located in the US state of Georgia. The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida and now residing in Florida and Oklahoma.

In the early 19th century, Appling was the political, educational, social, and religious center of Columbia County. Near Appling were located Mt. Carmel Academy and Columbia Institute. Mt. Carmel Academy was run by the famous Southern educator, Moses Waddel and it was here that John C. Calhoun and William H. Crawford were educated. Moses Waddel ( June 20, 1770 - July 21, 1840)was an American Educator and minister in Antebellum John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18 1782 &ndash March 31 1850 was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during William Harris Crawford ( February 24, 1772 &ndash September 15, 1834) was an important American politician Columbia Institute was started by a man pretending his last name was Bush who was actually Bushnell of revolutionary war submariner fame. David Bushnell (1742 - 1824 of Saybrook Connecticut, was an American Inventor during the Revolutionary War.

In the 1830s, when the Georgia Railroad was established, it was decided that to have the trains passing near Appling would disturb the proceeding of the court, so the railway that passed through the county from Atlanta to Augusta went well below Appling. The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company is a historic railroad and banking company that operated in the U

In 1855, the Courthouse in Appling received a major overhaul, and after the remodeling was complete in 1856, the building was in more or less its present form, a vernacular structure with Greek Revival and Italianate influences. Vernacular Architecture is a term used to categorize methods of Construction which use locally available resources to address local needs The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries predominantly in northern Europe and the United States In the course of the history of Classical architecture, an Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in which Italian sixteenth-century ^[2] Despite the extensive project, the shell of the 1809-1812 building was retained and the structure has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980. ^[7]

Appling was nearly wiped off the map by a tornado in the 1870s and it never regained the prestige it had prior to the tornado and the Civil War. Although there was an effort to organize the municipality in the early 20th century, the corporation remained inactive. ^[4]

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