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Sheriff L. L. Wyatt
This 1895 jail is named for the legendary Sheriff, Loy Lee Wyatt, who enforced the laws in Greene County for fifty-two years until his death in 1977. Sheriff L.L. Wyatt was born on January 2, 1904, in Paulding County. He was recruited to serve the citizens of Greene County due to his fast legs and honest reputation. In 1925, L.L. Wyatt began his law enforcement career as a Greene County policeman who waged a "one-man war" against the making of illegal corn whiskey. Prior to his arrival, moonshine production was considered the leading industry in Greene County and its product was enjoyed in all of the finest hotels of Atlanta. After having rid the County of its moonshiners, Wyatt ran for the Office of Sheriff in 1940 defeating the incumbent. He served as Sheriff until he died in 1977. At the time of his death he was the longest standing Sheriff in the State, with thirty-seven years of service.
During his 37 years as Sheriff, Wyatt became a legend in his own time. Few men become legends and even fewer achieve the status of a "living legend" as did Sheriff Wyatt. He was a religious man who believed that God blessed him with protection during all of his fights, gun battles, and dangerous encounters. His law enforcement exploits exposed him to at least five gunshot wounds in the line of duty, in part due to the fact that he seldom carried a gun on his person, requiring him to retrieve it from his car at the sight of danger. In the early days of his career, when moonshiners resisted arrest, Wyatt regularly shot it out with them. He killed over a half dozen men, all of whom shot at him first.
The most famous gunfight of Sheriff Wyatt’s career occurred in 1974. He was 70 years old at the time. Bank robbers eluded a 100-car police chase that started in Wrens, Georgia, and ended in Greene County. The bank robbers had killed a teller at the bank in Wrens and had taken two women hostage. Sheriff Wyatt set up a road block midway between Union Point and Greensboro. Wyatt stood in the middle of the road as the speeding car approached. The robbers attempted to shoot him, but the gun misfired. One bank robber was killed in the ensuing battle, but both women were unharmed. Sheriff Wyatt subsequently received the award of the Peace Officer of the Year for his bravery in this incident.
Sheriff Wyatt was a family man, devoted to his wife, son, and grandchildren. He was a businessman, lending his experience to the operation and affairs of the Citizens Union Bank as a director. He was a community leader who had concern for all citizens -- rich and poor, black and white. Out of a concern for these people, legend has it that Sheriff Wyatt confronted a notorious member of the Dixie Maffia and proclaimed, "These are my people and I want you to leave them alone!"
Sheriff Wyatt, also known as Mr. Sheriff, was the epitome of a community oriented police officer long before such an idea was born and served as an example for every officer to follow.
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09-28-12 South Paulding at Allatoona 14 -- Allatoona students, from left, senior Gennar Schafers, senior Bradford Asher, sophomore Connor Carter, senior Alec Smith and senior Joe Connaughton, cheer on the Buccaneers as they are about the score against the Spartans.
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SRO's Participate in GEMA Tourniquet Training Paulding County Sheriff's Office School Resource Officers participated in training to learn how to use field tourniquets. GEMA donated the tourniquets and also provided the training at the Paulding County School District central office. This will be invaluable training if the need ever arises. This is yet another instance where the Sheriff's Office and the School District have partnered together to make our schools safer for our children.
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Paulding County Fire/Rescue Engine 1, Rescue 1, Squad 1, Truck 11, Rescue 4, and the command staff, along with Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, City of Dallas GA Police Department, Hiram Police Department, Metro Atlanta EMS, and the Georgia State Patrol were all in attendance at the Paulding County Government complex for a wonderful turnout at the 23rd annual 9/11 Remembrance ceremony!
This is the Paulding Quarry in far-northwestern Ohio. The quarry opened in 1949 and the rocks are used to make cement on-site. The target unit is the Middle Devonian Dundee Limestone.
The blast rubble seen here is principally derived from the Silica Formation, which overlies the Dundee Limestone. The Silica Formation is also Middle Devonian and consists of richly fossiliferous interbedded limestones and shales. The fossils are typical mid-Paleozoic marine invertebrates such as brachiopods, bryozoans, corals, crinoids, and trilobites.
Locality: Paulding Quarry (= Lafarge Paulding Quarry), north-northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 57.96" North latitude, 84° 37' 21.23" West longitude)
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Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 "A date which will live in infamy." 74 years later, we honor their sacrifice.
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#NWGA #Sheriff #NorthWestGA #NorthwestGeorgia A group of ladies at the Sheriff’s Office has created an organization called “Rhett’s Patriots”… t.co/Y8Txp82QNb — Paulding Sheriff (PauldingSheriff) November 21, 2017 (via Twitter twitter.com/RedneckGremlin/status/933006396257456128)
I presume that this is Piedmont Azalea (Rhododendron canescens), but I cannot rule out Pinxterbloom Azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides). Pickett's Mill State Historic Site, Paulding County, Georgia.
September 20, 2023. Paulding County, Georgia Fire/Rescue was dispatched to a working structure fire in the area of Atlanta Hwy & Charles Hardy Parkway. Stations 1, 2, and 3 responded along with Battalions 1 and 2, Car 3410, and Rescue 11
This wind turbine stands in a field on the west side of State Route 49, just south of Township Road 152, in rural Paulding County, Ohio. It is part of a huge wind farm stretching across two counties in northwest Ohio near the Indiana-Ohio state line.
I photographed it on a foggy winter morning. The door is open, as it was being visited by a technician.
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