Dublin, Georgia

Dublin, Georgia
City
Dublin City Hall
Nickname(s): The Emerald City
Location in Laurens County and the state of Georgia
Coordinates: 32°32′15″N 82°55′6″W / 32.53750°N 82.91833°W / 32.53750; -82.91833Coordinates: 32°32′15″N 82°55′6″W / 32.53750°N 82.91833°W / 32.53750; -82.91833
Country	United States
State	Georgia
County	Laurens
Government
• Mayor	Phil Best
• City Manager	Lance Jones
Area
• Total	13.3 sq mi (34.4 km2)
• Land	13.2 sq mi (34.2 km2)
• Water	0.1 sq mi (0.2 km2)
Elevation	220 ft (67 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	16,201
• Density	1,200.7/sq mi (203.9/km2)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	31021, 31027, 31040
Area code(s)	478
FIPS code	13-24376
GNIS feature ID	0313692
Website	http://www.cityofdublin.org/

Dublin is a city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 16,201. The city is the county seat of Laurens County.

The original settlement was named after Dublin, Ireland. 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. 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 British militias to protect their native territory well into the early 19th century. Ultimately, most of the Muskogee diaspora settled in what is now Oklahoma.

Despite the Irish ancestry of Dublin's first non-indigenous settlers, the town, like most of Middle Georgia, by the late 19th century had evolved from mixture of ethnicities. Most of the population descended from Scottish, English, and other western European immigrants. The considerable African-American population descended from most of whose roots lay in Angola or throughout 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.

Dublin, according to a historical marker at the town's main Oconee bridge, was one of the last encampments at which Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family stayed before being captured by Union forces in May 1865.

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