Year Erected: 1955

Marker Text: Lamar County was created by the Georgia State Legislature on August 17, 1920. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a lawyer, colonel in the Confederate Army, US Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first officers of Lamar County included B.H. Hardy, Ordinary; S.J. Childers, Clerk of Court; Z.T. Elliott, Sheriff; E. Luther Butler, Tax Receiver; Gus Smith, Tax Collector; W. C. Jordan, Treasurer; B.K. Crouch, Coroner; Roger H. Taylor, Surveyor; J.F. Redding, Judge; Mrs. Mattie Barnes, School Superintendent; H.M. Johnson, E.O. Dobbs, and H. J. Kennedy, Solicitors.

Re-erected by the Georgia Historical Society in 2024