Grovetown, Georgia is a city in Columbia County, in the United States state of Georgia.

Many wealthy and influential Augusta residents had summer homes in Grovetown, escaping the heat and disease of the city in the swampy river area.

City services have increased with recreational facilities, increased public safety department, two fire stations, water and sewer services, a new city hall, senior center, and the Grovetown Museum.

Grovetown was organized and chartered as a city in 1881 as Groveton.

The initiative drew strong opposition from officials in Harlem and Grovetown, the county's only municipalities, citing that it would keep their cities from growing.

City officials organized a Grovetown Museum Board with By Laws for operating the facility.

She related that the historic building was part of the Grovetown history and the building should be preserved rather than destroyed.

She proposed having the building relocated on the property and restored for a Grovetown City Museum to preserve the past for future generations.

The new communities of Harlem and Grovetown grew up.

The City of Grovetown was chartered by the Georgia Legislature and officially incorporated in 1881.

The City of Grovetown

James A. Garfield was president when the City of Grovetown was organized and Chartered.

* The City of Grovetown website

Grovetown, named for Grove Baptist Church, developed as a summer resort in the 1880s for wealthy Augustans.

Four public high schools serve Evans: Evans High School, Greenbrier High School, Lakeside High School, and as of fall 2009, Grovetown High School.

The mayor of Grovetown is George W. James III

Grovetown is located at ( 33. 449324 ,-82. 196972 ).

( 7. 5 km² ) of Grovetown is land and 0. 35 % is water.

Grovetown High School, Grovetown Middle School, Columbia Middle School, Grovetown Elementary School, Baker Place Elementary School, Brookwood Elementary School, Cedar Ridge Elementary School, Euchee Creek Elementary School, Columbia County Alternative School.

Consequently Mayor Dennis Trudeau was determined to move forward as he applied for and received a grant to establish THE FIRST MUSEUM IN COLUMBIA COUNTY in Grovetown.

As a man of letters ( author, poet, and editor ), Hayne solicited the postal service to establish the Grovetown post office.

The first U. S. mail service was inaugurated in Grovetown on September 28, 1877 with Charles Clifford as postmaster.

It served the citizens of Grovetown until 1970 when passenger trains no longer ran the Augusta-Atlanta line.

Fulton legislators `` work with city officials to pass enabling legislation that will permit the establishment of a fair and equitable '' pension plan for city employes.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players, coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football.

One character, Raymond Rambert, devises a plan to escape the city to join his lover in Paris after city officials refuse his request to leave.

To honor the 100th anniversary of the refining of oil in Abadan, city officials are planning an " oil museum.

With everyone running in different directions, some local businessmen worked out a deal and were awarded an AFL franchise on June 7, 1965, contingent upon acquiring exclusive stadium rights from city officials.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

Dogpatch residents regularly combat the likes of city slickers, business tycoons, government officials and intellectuals with their homespun simplicity.

In recent years city officials have explored ways to revitalize the city and return Columbus to the days when Miller's architectural innovation made it one of the most envied cities in the US.

He pushed the passage of the Moreland Act, which enabled the governor to oversee city and county officials as well as officials in semi-autonomous state bureaucracies.

The charter was amended again in 1851 to expand the city area, provide greater detail of the duties of the mayor, city council, and other officials.

The women first marched to the Hôtel de Ville, demanding that city officials address their concerns.

Getting unsatisfactory responses from city officials, as many as 7, 000 women joined the march to Versailles, bringing with them cannons and a variety of smaller weapons.

Controversies that surround graffiti continue to create disagreement amongst city officials / law enforcement and writers who wish to display and appreciate work in public locations.

Physicians were hired by city officials and burial details were carefully organized.

Initially, however, Telemann encountered a number of problems: some church officials found opera and collegium musicum performances to be objectionable ( for " inciting lasciviousness "), and the city printer was displeased with Telemann publishing printed texts for his yearly Passions.

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

Attendance continued to dwindle over the years as a result of the team playing poorly and city officials were wary of such an investment and negotiations were slow and contentious.