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Humorist William Tappan Thompson edited Madison's Southern Miscellany in the 1840s, drawing on local people for his comic dialect letters of fictional planter Major Joseph Jones. Collected as 'Major Jones's Courtship' (1843), they won national fame.
William Tappan Thompson is a historical marker in Madison, Morgan County, erected in 1963. It is one of 42 historical markers documented in Morgan County, among 112 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.5958, -83.4668 near Madison. The nearest cataloged historic site is In Memory of the Boys from Morgan County, Georgia (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include E.R. Lambert, Morgan County Veterans Memorial Walk, and Morgan County.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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