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Colquitt is the county seat of Miller County in southwestern Georgia and has held that role since the county was created by the Georgia Legislature in 1856.

Colquitt is Miller County's only incorporated municipality, formally incorporated as a city on December 19, 1860.

The city is named for Walter Terry Colquitt, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher, attorney, and judge who represented Georgia in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 2020 census counted 2,001 people living in Colquitt in 820 households.

The Colquitt Town Square Historic District, centered on the courthouse square, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Miller County's first courthouse in Colquitt was replaced once and burned twice before the current courthouse was completed in 1977.

The Georgia Legislature designated Colquitt 'Georgia's First Mural City' in 2006, recognizing the Millennium Mural Project's series of large murals painted on downtown buildings.

Colquitt is the home of Swamp Gravy, Georgia's official folklife play, a community production built from local stories and performed each spring and fall at Cotton Hall, a converted cotton warehouse.

Cotton Hall also houses a museum holding some 10,000 artifacts illustrating life in rural southwest Georgia.

Known as the 'Mayhaw Capital of the World,' Colquitt celebrates the tart mayhaw fruit every April with the National Mayhaw Festival, including a parade and arts-and-crafts show at Spring Creek Park.