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Dublin, GA 31021
Dublin, Georgia
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Dublin is
located at 32°32′15″N, 82°55′6″W (32.537463,
-82.918358). The town, named such because
the Middle Georgia piedmont reminded Irish
settlers of terrain in their native country,
was founded on the Oconee river, which
starts in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
mountains in northern Georgia before
combining with the Okmulgee River to form
the Altamaha, a river which then proceeds to
its mouth on the Atlantic.
Because of Dublin's location as a midpoint
between Savannah and Atlanta, the town in
recent decades became home to a small
assortment of industrial distribution
centers, which complemented various
industries -- textiles, furniture, and
paper, among others -- that had already
established themselves there in the second
half of the 20th century. Historically,
however, Dublin's economy was based on the
local cotton, corn, and soybean trades,
which blossomed as the town's central
location enabled it to thrive with the
growth of the railroad.
Originally, Dublin and the surrounding area
was home to Native Americans of the Muskogee
people, also known as Creeks. Like their
brethren throughout much of the southeast,
most of the Muskogee fled westward with the
arrival of European settlers, many of them
organizing themselves into armed resistance
units, which fought government forces and
white militias to protect their native
territory well into the early 1800s.
Ultimately, most of the Muskogee diaspora
settled in what is now Oklahoma.
Despite the Irish ancestry of Dublin's first
non-native settlers, the town, like most of
the rest of Middle Georgia, by the late
1800s had evolved into a hodgepodge of mixed
ethnicities: While area whites descended
from Scotch, English and other western
European immigrants, the town's considerable
African-American population descended from
freed slaves, most of whose roots lay in
Angola and elsewhere in west Africa. By the
end of the 20th century, the town had also
become home to a growing population of
recent immigrants, many of them
professionals from India, Korea, and Latin
America. As labor migrations from Mexico and
Central America shifted from the southwest
U.S. to much of the southeast, many
immigrants from those regions also moved to
Dublin in the first decade of the 21st
century.
An obscure bit of Dublin trivia: The town,
along with a reference to the Oconee river,
is mentioned in the opening passages of
James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake." Dublin,
according to a historical marker at the
town's main Oconee bridge, was also one of
the last encampments at which Confederate
President Jefferson Davis and his family
stayed before being captured by Union forces
in May 1865. According to the United States
Census Bureau, the town has a total area of
34.4 km˛ (13.3 mi˛). 34.2 km˛ (13.2 mi˛) of
it is land and 0.2 km˛ (0.1 mi˛) of it
(0.45%) is water.
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