Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Louisville, GA

Louisville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Georgia, located on the Ogeechee River southwest of Augusta — and despite the spelling, its name is pronounced "LEWIS-ville."

Louisville was incorporated on January 26, 1786, as the prospective state capital of Georgia, though it did not actually become the capital for another decade.

The city was named for King Louis XVI of France, in honor of the French aid given to the American colonists during the Revolutionary War; the far larger Louisville, Kentucky, was named for the same king.

Louisville was designed as a planned capital city modeled on the squares of Philadelphia, on 1,000 acres purchased along Rocky Comfort Creek near the Ogeechee River.

Louisville served as the state capital of Georgia from 1796 to 1806, and Georgia's first permanent capitol building was completed there in the mid-1790s.

The Jefferson County Courthouse, built in 1904, stands on the site of that first permanent capitol building.

During Louisville's capital years, the records of the notorious Yazoo land fraud were publicly burned in the town, and the Great Seal of Georgia was adopted there in 1799; a historical marker for the Yazoo scandal stands in front of the courthouse.

Louisville's historic open-sided market house, known as the Old Market, still stands in the center of downtown and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; in the antebellum era it was used for the sale of farm goods and household items as well as of enslaved people.

The state government left Louisville for Milledgeville in 1807 amid complaints about malaria, the town's limited river trade, and its distance from Georgia's growing western population.

The 2020 census counted 2,381 residents of Louisville living in 899 households.