Milledgeville GA is the seat of Baldwin County in central Georgia. For the first half of the 19th century, it served as the capital of Georgia and was the seat of the state government throughout the Civil War. In 1803, the land immediately west of the Oconee River was taken by the Creek Indians and the area was surveyed, and a town plat of 500 acres was divided into 84 four-acre squares, and formed into the town of Milledgeville, named after the governor John Milledge. In December 1804 Milledgeville was declared by the legislature to be the new capital of Georgia.
In the 1950s the Georgia Power Company completed a dam roughly five miles north of town. This led to the creation of a huge reservoir called Lake Sinclair. The lake community became an increasingly important part of the town’s social and economic identity. In the 1980s and 1990s Milledgeville GA began to invest in revitalizing the downtown and historic district.