[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5716]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO PUTNAM COUNTY, GEORGIA

 Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, today I honor the 200th 
Anniversary of Putnam County, GA.
  Putnam County was created by an act of the Georgia Assembly on 
December 10, 1807. It was laid out from Baldwin County and lies in the 
heart of Georgia's Piedmont region. It was named for one of the most 
noted patriots of the Revolutionary War, GEN Israel Putnam of 
Massachusetts.
  The city of Eatonton was founded as the seat of Putnam County in 1808 
and was incorporated the following year.
  Known as the ``Dairy Capital of Georgia,'' Putnam County is also home 
to Rock Eagle 4-H Center. The Rock Eagle Mound is 102 feet long and 120 
feet wide. It is believed to have been built by Native Americans over 
2,000 years ago and was listed on the National Register of Historic 
Places in 1978. Putnam County is also the birthplace of several famous 
Georgians, including journalist and author Joel Chandler Harris, author 
Alice Walker, and Chick-fil-a founder and CEO S. Truett Cathy.
  It gives me a great deal of pleasure and it is a privilege to 
recognize on the floor of the U.S. Senate the contributions of Putnam 
County to the State of Georgia. I congratulate this great county on its 
200th anniversary.

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