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Pepperton, Georgia

unincorporated community in Georgia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ65071904 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pepperton is an unincorporated community in Butts County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

History

Pepperton was named for a red pepper patch near the original town site. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Pepperton as a town in 1897.

Much of the community was annexed by Jackson in 1966.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pepperton, Georgia” as unincorporated community in Georgia, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pepperton, Georgia and unincorporated can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as unincorporated community in Georgia, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65071904. Authority coordinates are 33.293, -83.945. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897 and 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pepperton, Georgia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.