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Around 1850, the location just north of
Fosterville, GA, was positioned along the new railway from Atlanta to Macon. The trainstop there was named for a prosperous local planter, James Lankford Lovejoy. On early maps, the location is called "Lovejoys." It became known as Lovejoy's Station by 1864,
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Sherman's campaign through Georgia. James Lovejoy left the region and died in Clinch County, Georgia in 1877.
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