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Soperton is a city in Treutlen County, Georgia, and serves as the county seat; it is the only incorporated city in the county.

The 2020 census counted 2,889 residents in Soperton, down from 3,115 in 2010, including 699 families.

A post office was established at Soperton in 1902, and the Georgia General Assembly incorporated Soperton as a town the same year.

Soperton was named after Benjamin Franklin Soper, a railroad official who founded the Southern Railway Mine and Milling Company and was instrumental in bringing the railroad through the area.

Treutlen County was created in 1918 from parts of Emanuel and Montgomery counties, largely through the efforts of Neil L. Gillis, remembered as the "father of Treutlen County," and was named for John A. Treutlen, Georgia's first state governor under the Constitution of 1777.

In the 1920s local farmer James Fowler planted more than seven million pine seedlings on 10,000 acres, creating his "Million Pines Plantation," and he has been called the father of modern Southern forestry.

Thanks to Fowler's experiment, Soperton is nicknamed the "Million Pines City."

In 1933 the Soperton News became the first newspaper in the United States printed on newsprint made from southern pine pulp, and a copy of that first edition is held by the Smithsonian Institution.

The Million Pines Arts and Crafts Festival, honoring Fowler and the pine industry, has been held in Soperton on the first weekend of November since 1972 and is billed as one of southeast Georgia's largest such festivals.

The Treutlen County Courthouse in Soperton, built in 1919, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.