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    named for Senator William Crosby Dawson. Dawson is part of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan statistical area. Dawson was founded in 1856 as seat of the...
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    Dawson County is a county located in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,798 up from 22,330...
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    Dawsonville is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,720 in 2020. Dawsonville is included in the...
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  • community Dawson, Georgia, a city Dawson, Illinois, a village Dawson, Iowa, a city Dawson Springs, Kentucky, formerly known as "Dawson City" Dawson, Maryland...
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    The Dawson Five were defendants in a criminal court case in Dawson, Georgia, where they were charged with the murder of a white customer in a roadside...
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    The Dawson County Courthouse, built in 1858, is a historic two-story redbrick courthouse building located on Courthouse Square in Dawsonville, Georgia. It...
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    Otis Redding (category People from Dawson, Georgia)
    influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, and his family soon moved to Macon. Redding quit school at age 15...
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    Amicalola Falls (category Protected areas of Dawson County, Georgia)
    in Dawson County, Georgia, United States. It the highest waterfall in Georgia and is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia. The...
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    a United States Air Force test facility located in the Dawson Forest in Dawsonville, Georgia. It was the site of Lockheed's lab for investigating the...
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    southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,185. The county seat is Dawson. Terrell County is included in the...
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    378166; -84.166512 Dawson Forest (City of Atlanta Tract) is a 10,130-acre (41.0 km2) public-use forest located in Dawson County, Georgia, southwest of Dawsonville...
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  • Wayland Flowers (category People from Dawson, Georgia)
    talking. Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. was born November 26, 1939, in Dawson, Georgia, the second of three children. His father soon shipped off to World...
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  • Dawson County is the name of several counties in the United States: Dawson County, Georgia Dawson County, Montana Dawson County, Nebraska Dawson County...
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    Cole Swindell (category Country musicians from Georgia (U.S. state))
    up in Dawson, Georgia, and has two brothers and a stepbrother. Swindell attended Terrell Academy in Dawson, Georgia. Swindell attended Georgia Southern...
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    Benjamin J. Davis Jr. (category People from Dawson, Georgia)
    – known to his friends as "Ben" – was born September 8, 1903, in Dawson, Georgia to Benjamin Davis Sr. and Jimmie W. Porter. The family moved to Atlanta...
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    William Crosby Dawson (January 4, 1798 – May 5, 1856) was a lawyer, judge, politician, and soldier from Georgia. Dawson was born in Greensboro, Greene...
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    Walter Washington (category People from Dawson, Georgia)
    Washington was the great-grandson of enslaved Americans. He was born in Dawson, Georgia. His family moved North in the Great Migration, and Washington was...
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    The 1980 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1980, in Georgia as part of the 1980 United States presidential election...
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    William Alfred "Red" Dawson (born December 4, 1942) is a former American football player and assistant coach for Marshall University. He was nicknamed...
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  • William Crosby Dawson (1798–1856), United States Senator from Georgia William Curran Dawson (1818–1893), Alabama politician, soldier William Dawson (Missouri...
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  • House, a historic building in Lyons, Georgia, U.S. Dawson Woman's Clubhouse, a historic log cabin in Dawson, Georgia, U.S. Woman's Club House (Manhattan...
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    travels through such cities as Cuthbert, Dawson, Albany, Sylvester, Tifton, Pearson, Waycross, and Nahunta. In Georgia, every U.S. Highway has at least one...
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  • Oscar Dawson (1825–1865), Georgia politician and Confederate officer George Robert Dawson (1790–1856), Anglo-Irish Tory politician George Dawson (author)...
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    Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River...
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  • (32 km2), located in the mountains approximately 60 minutes north of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is located in Pickens County between Jasper and Dawsonville...
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    The Dawson County School District is a public school district in Dawson County, Georgia, United States. It is based in Dawsonville, and serves the communities...
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    James Brazier (c. 1926–1958), African-American murdered by police in Dawson, Georgia Jeff Brazier (born 1979), British television presenter John Brazier...
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    Mountain is located in Georgia USA on the boundary between Dawson and Gilmer counties. The summit is the highest point in Dawson County. It is in the Chattahoochee...
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  • Frank Harvey (American football) (category People from Dawson, Georgia)
    Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia and was drafted by the Cardinals in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL draft...
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    defeated Republican nominee and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Dawson A. Walker. On election day, October 2, 1872, Democratic nominee James...
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