"Georgia City on Spring River, 15 miles northwest of Carthage, had fine water power...It had a
church--Methodist, 1 schoolhouse, and a few stores. Population about 150 (1874). Georgia City was laid out January 18, 1868 by John C. Guinn and named after his native state. William Fugate, John C. Cox and son started stores there and Georgia City for a time was a flourishing town. Some years ago (before 1912) the town plat was vacated and is now (1912) farm
land, there remaining of the original town only a store and blacksmith shop. John C. Guinn, the
founder of the town, was rated largest real estate owner in the county, possessing 17,000 acres.
(--History of Jasper County, 1912 Vol. 1, pp. 75, 76.) It was located at Section 4, Township 29 N, Range 33 W, on an unmarked road east of Asbury." -- Arthur Paul Moser, "Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Jasper County, Missouri"
