Yes, really. Only one. If you guessed maybe it was Mitchell County, in honor of "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell, or Walker County, in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning native Alice Walker, guess again. It's Hart County. Named for Nancy Morgan Hart, who you may never have given a second thought to as you tool through her honorary 'hood on the way to Athens or Augusta for the Masters.
You can argue till you’re blue in the face that a state whose official symbol oughta be the steel magnolia should make room for a few more women’s names on its whopping total of 159 counties. But you can’t really argue with the choice of Hart, who almost singlehandedly kept northeast Georgia safe from British soldiers and loyalists during the Revolutionary War.
In fact, nobody ever dared argue with her, least of all the six guys found buried behind her log cabin years later.
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