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Cochran is a city in central Georgia and the county seat of Bleckley County.

The town was first settled by B. B. Dykes and known as Dykesboro, and its earliest settlers came to work in the turpentine industry.

Cochran was incorporated on March 19, 1869, and named for Judge Arthur E. Cochran, president of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, who was instrumental in developing this part of Georgia.

Cochran's nickname is the "Castle City," a nod to the royal themes shared by the mascots of its schools — the Bleckley County Royals and the Middle Georgia State Knights among them.

Cochran is home to the Cochran campus of Middle Georgia State University, which traces its origins to New Ebenezer College, founded on the site in 1884 by the New Ebenezer Baptist Association, with classes beginning in 1887.

The campus later became Middle Georgia College, which was long described as the oldest public two-year college in the nation, before it merged with Macon State College in 2013 to form what became Middle Georgia State University in 2015.

Today's Cochran campus of Middle Georgia State University covers about 182 acres of shaded, traditional grounds and remains the university's oldest and most residential campus.

Bleckley County itself was created in 1912 from Pulaski County and named for Logan Edwin Bleckley, a former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, and Cochran is its only incorporated city.

The 2020 census counted 5,026 residents in Cochran, making it by far the largest community in Bleckley County, with 1,902 housing units in the city.

Students in Cochran attend Bleckley County High School, whose Royals are a local source of pride in the Castle City.