Golf in Washington

Washington is the county seat of Wilkes County in northeast Georgia, historically one of the most prosperous plantation counties in the antebellum South. The city center is anchored by the Washington Historic District with a significant collection of antebellum architecture, and Washington has connections to the end of the Confederacy — Jefferson Davis was reportedly sheltered here briefly in April 1865 during his flight from Union forces. Today Wilkes County is a rural agricultural community with cattle ranching prominent alongside row crop farming.