# Bushnell, Georgia
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{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Georgia, U.S.}}
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'''Bushnell''' is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Coffee County](/source/Coffee_County%2C_Georgia), in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)).[{{GNIS|326203}}]
==History==
The community was named after G. L. Bush, a local politician.[{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/b.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=29 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}]
A post office called Bushnell was in operation from 1903 until 1922.[{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=GA | title=Post Offices | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=2 April 2018}}] The [Georgia General Assembly](/source/Georgia_General_Assembly) incorporated the place as the "Town of Bushnell" in 1907, with the town corporate limits extending in a {{convert|2|mi|adj=on|spell=in}} radius from the Atlanta, Birming and Atlantic Railroad depot.[{{cite book|title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWp-89AXKDUC&pg=PA491|year=1907|publisher=Clark & Hines, State Printers|page=491}}] The town's charter was legislatively repealed less than one year later in 1908.