Thomasville Times-Enterprise: Thomas County celebrates Bicentennial with Commemorative Board meeting

Thomasville Times-Enterprise, December 23, 2025

The Thomas County Board of Commissioners gathered on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, to mark 200 years of service, stewardship, and shared history.  Donned in matching period attire, the Commissioners held a Commemorative Board meeting, where those in attendance heard a presentation of the Act of the General Assembly of December 23, 1825, to form two new counties from the preexisting counties of Irwin and Decatur. The Act established that the seventeenth and eighteenth districts in Decatur, along with portions of the twenty-third and nineteenth districts that lie on the east side of the Ohlockonee River, together with the thirteenth and fourteenth districts of Irwin County, would form a new county known as Thomas. Read more here.