* March 22 – The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.

Elbert County is on the southeastern prairie ; Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Park counties are in the Rocky Mountains.

Monroe County was the home of Andrew Summers Rowan of Spanish-American War fame, who is immortalized in Elbert Hubbard's classic A Message to Garcia.

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The Georgia legislature formed the counties of Elbert, Oglethorpe, and Lincoln entirely from portions of Wilkes County.

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Madison County formed from Oglethorpe, Clarke, Jackson, Franklin and Elbert counties.

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Elbert County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia.

Though a rural county, Elbert County has been home to many legends.

Included in these are Revolutionary War heroine Nancy Hart, who resided in southern Elbert County, and the Rev.

Joseph Rucker Lamar, deceased, who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1910 – 1916, was born in Elbert County.

Harris, deceased, for whom Young Harris College is named, was born in Elbert County.

Former U. S. Secretary of War and 1824 U. S. Presidential candidate William Harris Crawford, as well as famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis during his youth ; his family owned lands along the Broad River in The Broad River Valley located in Wilkes ( now Oglethorpe ) County which borders Elbert County.

Clark Gaines, NFL record holder and former Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, was raised in Elbert County and played football for Elbert County Comprehensive High School.

Blues guitarist Baby Tate was born in Elbert County.

Recording artists Modern Skirts, popular on the college music circuit, include two members from Elbert County, JoJo Glidewell and Jay Gulley.

Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher, wrote " A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

According to the standard Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian dictionary, ' unihipili are the spirits of deceased persons, ' uhane is a soul, spirit or ghost, and ' aumakua are family or personal gods, deified ancestors who might assume the shape of animals.

Robert W. Lavender of Elbert County, and the Public Defender for the circuit is Joel Shiver of Franklin County.

Elbert County also has a State Court ( jurisdictionally similar to the " District Courts " of other states ), and the Elbert County State Court is served by Hon.

Lanie Simmons is the Chief Judge of the Elbert County Magistrate Court, and Hon.

Susan Sexton is the Judge of the Elbert County Probate Court.

The highest natural point in Colorado and the entire Rocky Mountains is the summit of Mount Elbert in Lake County at 14, 440 feet ( 4401. 2 meters ) elevation.

Elbert County is the 21st most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States.

Despite its location on the eastern plains, Elbert County is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area.

Elbert County has a weekly newspaper that is published in the Town of Elizabeth, the Meadowlark Herald, though the official newspapers used by the County is the Elbert County News.

Bowman is a city in Elbert County, Georgia, United States.

It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. " Whit " Whitley, Jr. ( who was re-elected in 2005 after a 28-year hiatus from the same position ) and a seven-member City Council.

Joe Hancock foaled circa 1925, was raised by John Jackson Hancock, and was trained by Elbert Bird Ogle in Claypool, OK. One of his many claims to fame is having never been beaten in a quarter-mile race.

Elbert is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Throckmorton County, Texas, United States.

Elbert is located at ( 33. 276159 ,-98. 985077 ).

Elbert County has many active civic organizations including, but not limited to, the Elbert County Chamber of Commerce, Elbert County Historical Society, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Pilot Club, Elbert Theatre Foundation ( part of the Georgia Council for the Arts ), NAACP, Boys and Girls Club, Elbert Civic League ( part of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs ), and Habitat for Humanity.

Large lignite deposits are present in the Paleocene Denver Formation in the central part of the basin, in a north-south belt east of Denver and Colorado Springs, in Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, and El Paso counties.

Hodge resigned and eventually went to prison, but Howlett lost the general election to Elbert Sidney Smith as part of a national Republican landslide.

Banks, Burke ( part with area code 478 ), Chattooga, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Columbia, Dade, Dawson, Elbert, Fannin, Franklin, Gilmer, Glascock, Gordon, Greene, Habersham, Hancock, Harris, Hart, Heard, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson ( part with area code 478 ), Jenkins, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, McDuffie, Meriwether, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Rabun, Richmond, Stephens, Talbot, Taliaferro, Towns, Troup, Union, Upson ( part with area code 478 ), Walker, Warren, White, Whitfield, and Wilkes

On January 7, 1785, Elbert appeared before the House, and formally accepted the honor, saying in part:

Records in the Elbert County Courthouse show that in 1798, Tucker bought from Mr. John Heard for $ 1, 000 in cash, part of the " Cook's Ferry Tract " with a ferry and all the items that went with it.