Tarversville

Tarversville was named for the Tarver family, who settled here more than a century ago. A post office opened in 1826 as Tarver's Store, and in 1831 the name changed to Tarversville. Hartwell Hill Tarver (1791-1851), one of the area's wealthiest planters and largest slave owners, was among the community's most noted citizens; he represented Twiggs County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1831, 1834, 1835, and 1839, and in 1837 he was elected Brigadier-General of the 1st Brigade, 6th Division of the Georgia Militia. The Ocmulgee Academy was located here and was incorporated by the State of Georgia in 1819 with Benjamin Dupree, Edmund Dupree, William W. Williamson, Henry Bunn, and Robert Glenn as trustees; the school flourished for many years and accepted both local and boarding students. Near here stood Fort Twiggs, one of a series of forts established near the Ocmulgee River during the War of 1812. The nucleus of the Lafayette Volunteers of Twiggs County assembled at Tarversville in 1825 to march to Milledgeville and greet General Lafayette on his visit there.

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