MILLEDGEVILLE

city, seat (1809) of Baldwin county, central Georgia, U.S., on the Oconee River (dammed immediately north of the city to form Lake Sinclair). It was founded in 1803 and named for John Milledge, then governor of Georgia. It was the capital of Georgia from 1807 to 1867. Relatively little damage was done to it during the Civil War by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to Savannah, and many fine antebellum homes remain. The old statehouse (restored after a fire in 1941) is now part of Georgia Military College (founded 1879). The Old Governor's Mansion (1838) is on the campus of Georgia College (1889). The city is an agricultural trading centre with light manufactures including textiles and products from local clays. It is the site of the Central State Hospital (founded in 1837 as the State Sanitarium). Inc. town, 1806; city, 1835. Pop. (1990) 17,727.