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Wrightsville is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,195 at the 2010 census, [4] down from 2,223 at the 2000 census. By 2020, its population grew to 3,449. The city limits include Johnson State Prison on the northeast side of town.
Johnson County is a county located along the oconee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,189. The county seat is Wrightsville. Johnson County is part of the Dublin, Georgia, micropolitan statistical area.
Map View. We begin our tour at the Johnson County Courthouse, located on the public square in the center of downtown Wrightsville, Georgia. Visit an online tour of the city's older homes available at www.wrightsville-johnsoncounty.com/walkingtour/index.htm.
- Downtown, Wrightsville, 31096, GA
- (478) 864-7200
Johnson State Prison is located in Wrightsville, Georgia in Johnson County, Georgia. It is a medium security prison owned and operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections, it houses adult male felons. The facilities' capacity is 1600 inmates.
So the town was named Wrightsville. If land was worth then what it is now, it would have been Hicksville. The County’s first courthouse was the Cedar Creek Primitive Baptist Church. The second was a rectangular brick structure that lasted until the present Courthouse was built in 1895, at a cost of $20,000.
The Johnson County Courthouse in Wrightsville, Georgia was built in 1895 and work was done on it in 1940 under the Works Projects Administration. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It stands on the town square in Wrightsville.
