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The county was named for Logan Edwin Bleckley , a soldier and Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. The state constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed by the Georgia General Assembly on July 30, 1912, and ratified November 5, 1912. Bleckley County was formerly home to Middle Georgia College, the oldest two-year public college in the nation. In 2013 it merged with Macon Stat...
Wikipedia =Middle Georgia College (MGC) was a four-year state college unit of the University System of Georgia. On Jan. 8, 2013, it was consolidated with Macon State College into a new institution, which is now known as Middle Georgia State University .The college's main campus was in Cochran, and that campus is now a satellite campus of Middle Georgia State University. The campus continues to ...