{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Spring Place, Georgia |official_name = |settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area#United States|Unincorporated community]] |nickname = |motto =
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==History== A post office was established at Spring Place in 1826.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=GA | title=Post Offices | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref> The community took its name from Spring Place Mission, a nearby Native American [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] mission.<ref name="Krakow 211">{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/s.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=211 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>
Spring Place held the [[county seat]] of Murray County from 1834 until the seat was transferred to Chatsworth in 1913.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.murraycountymuseum.com/history.html | title=A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF MURRAY COUNTY'S HISTORY | publisher=Murray County Museum | accessdate=11 June 2019}}</ref>
The [[Georgia General Assembly]] incorporated Spring Place as a town in 1885.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-NIl3PYj1IC&pg=PA409|year=1885|publisher=Clark & Hines, State Printers|page=409}}</ref> The town's municipal charter was repealed in 1995.<ref name="Krakow 211" />
==Notable person== [[Kate Galt Zaneis]] (1887-1973), educator, was born in Spring Place.<ref>[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=ZA001 Oklahoma Historical Society-Kate Galt Zaneis (1887-1973)]</ref>
==Historic Site== [[Chief Vann House Historic Site]] is on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Murray County, Georgia]] as the Vann House.
==Notes== {{reflist}} {{Murray County, Georgia}}
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[[Category:Former municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state)]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Murray County, Georgia]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)]] [[Category:Populated places disestablished in 1995]]
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