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Butts County was formed on December 24, 1825 as the sixty-fourth county in Georgia from portions of Henry County and Monroe County.
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Butts County is a county located in the northern half of the U. S. state of Georgia.
Butts County has one radio station: WJGA FM 92. 1 and one local newspaper, the Jackson Progress-Argus.
Indian Springs later became unincorporated and Pepperton was merged with Jackson in 1966, leaving 3 incorporated cities in Butts County.
Much of Butts County and its cities were destroyed by the army of General William T. Sherman in its infamous March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
Butts County struggled for decades afterwards to become economically stable again.
In 1898, caught up in the post-reconstruction fervor that had infected most Georgia counties, Butts County erected a monumental courthouse as a sign of its new prosperity.
The construction of the Lloyd Shoals dam in 1910 created Jackson Lake, a prime recreational lake located primarily in Butts County.
Progress milestones in Butts County include the first telephones in 1884 ; first waterworks in 1905 ; electric lights on February 19, 1907 ; and traffic lights in 1926.
In 2007, Butts County, along with the city of Flovilla were both designated as Georgia Signature Communities by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
Butts County is governed by a Board of Commissioners composed of one commissioner from each of the county's five electoral districts.
The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center of the Georgia Department of Corrections is a maximum security prison in unincorporated Butts County.
1821-The Indian Springs Hotel, now a museum, was the site of the signing of the treaty that ceded all Native American land in Butts County to the government.
1966-Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, now Georgia Diagnostic Prison, is the largest employer in Butts County.
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Butts County, Georgia
* Butts County Board of Commissioners Official Site
* Butts County Historical Society
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Goldberg's work was commemorated posthumously in 1995 with the inclusion of Rube Goldberg's Inventions, depicting Professor Butts ' " Self-Operating Napkin " in the Comic Strip Classics series of U. S. postage stamps.
The Theatre was constructed in Shoreditch in 1576 by James Burbage with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the unsuccessful Red Lion playhouse of 1567 ) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577.
Henry VIII's physician, Dr Butts, stated that after the wedding night, Henry said he was not impotent because he experienced " duas pollutiones nocturnas in somno " ( two nocturnal emissions in dreams ; i. e., two wet dreams ).
In William Shakespeare's time, there was a theatre called Newington Butts and later there were further theatres.
The scientist Michael Faraday was born here, in Newington Butts, in 1791.
It was named by the Georgia General Assembly in honor of Samuel Butts, an officer who was killed in the Creek War in 1814.
The example on the right is Goldberg's " Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin ", which was later reprinted in the postcard book Rube Goldberg's Inventions!
Known previously as Newington ( Newington Butts and Newington Causeway are two of the principal roads of the area ), in the medieval period it was simply a part of rural Surrey, of the manor of Walworth.
To overcome hum problem for guitars, the humbucking pickup was invented by Joseph Raymond " Ray " Butts, but Seth Lover of Gibson was also working on one himself.
Who developed it first is a matter of some debate, but Ray Butts was awarded the first patent ( U. S. Patent 2, 892, 371 ) and Seth Lover came next ( U. S. Patent 2, 896, 491 ).
Ultimately, both men developed essentially the same concept, but Ray Butts was never recognized as the one who produced it first.
The next notable Master was Henry Butts, who was also Vice Chancellor of the University.
In 1632, when Butts failed to turn up to deliver the University Sermon on Easter Day, he was found to have hanged himself.
Butts ' ghost was subject to an attempted ( and purportedly unsuccessful ) exorcism by three students in 1904.
The last sighting of Butts was in 1967 as a half length figure of a man in the passage between New Court and Old Court.
It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built, after The Theatre ( 1576 ), the Curtain ( 1577 ), and the theatre at Newington Butts ( c.
The aircraft was named after Beecher Butts, an aviation enthusiast who allowed use of his farm for testing of the aircraft.
Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
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Densmore formed a band with fellow ex-Doors Robby Krieger in 1973 called The Butts Band but disbanded after two albums in 1975.
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