Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Barnesville, GA

Barnesville is a city in west-central Georgia and the county seat of Lamar County, about 60 miles south of Atlanta and 37 miles northwest of Macon.

Barnesville was founded in 1826 around Barnes' Store and was named for Gideon Barnes, the proprietor of a local tavern.

The city was formally incorporated on February 20, 1854.

At the 2020 census Barnesville had 6,292 residents, living in 2,290 households.

Around the turn of the 20th century Barnesville was known as the 'Buggy Capital of the South,' turning out about 9,000 horse-drawn buggies a year.

The town still celebrates that heritage with the Buggy Days festival, held each year on the third full weekend of September.

During the Civil War, Barnesville served as a major hospital site where local families took wounded Confederate soldiers into their homes and nursed them, earning a reputation for highly successful recovery rates.

In 1920 Barnesville was designated the seat of the newly formed Lamar County.

Barnesville is home to Gordon State College, a University System of Georgia institution founded in 1852 as the Male and Female Seminary, with an enrollment of more than 3,100 students.

Barnesville sits at an elevation of about 850 feet astride the Eastern Continental Divide — the north side of the city drains toward the Atlantic Ocean via the Ocmulgee River, while the south side drains toward the Gulf of Mexico via the Flint River.