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Housing Units (2000): 11371
Land area (2000): 366.649138 sq. miles (949.616868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.992150 sq. miles (5.159644 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 368.641288 sq. miles (954.776512 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.176536 N, 82.361368 W
Headwords:
Toombs, GA
Toombs County
Toombs County, GA
Wikipedia
Toombs is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Robert Toombs (1810-1885), U.S. Senator, first Secretary of State of the Confederacy and Confederate general
- Roderick Toombs, better known as Roddy Piper (1954–2015), Canadian professional wrestler and actor
- Rudy Toombs (c. 1914-1962), American songwriter
- Sam Toombs (1871-1949), Australian politician
Usage examples of "toombs".
Making the Confederate Constitution - Robert Toombs - Anecdote of General Scott - Lincoln's trip through Baltimore - Howell Cobb and Benjamin H.
Lee - Treatment of prisoners - Toombs thrown from his horse - Criticism of the Administration - Paying the soldiers - Suspected women searched - Mason and Slidell .
She went to receptions where, sitting aside on sofas with Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Cobb, or Hunter, she talked of the probable outcome of the war, should war come, setting down in her Diary what she heard from others and all that she thought herself.
Robert Toombs, a native of Georgia, who early acquired fame as a lawyer, served in the Creek War under General Scott, became known in 1842 as a "State Rights Whig," being elected to Congress, where he was active in the Compromise measures of 1850.
General Toombs is certain Colonel Chesnut will be made one of the new batch of brigadiers.
It thinks Toombs, Cobb, Slidell, Lamar, or Chesnut would have been far better in the office.
Calhoun, Davis, Breckinridge, Toombs, and others were in constant communication with local leaders.
General Gordon and his family had graciously accepted, Alexander Stephens would be present if his ever-uncertain health permitted and even Bob Toombs, the stormy petrel of the Confederacy, was expected.