Stuckey, Georgia

Stuckey is an unincorporated community in Wheeler County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]

History

A post office called Stuckey was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1953.[2] Henry T. Stuckey, an early postmaster and proprietor of the local country store, gave the community his last name.[3]

gollark: This is another maybe technically accurate (at an even greater stretch) but ridiculous interpretation. If people don't exist, it is not in fact possible to remove them.
gollark: This sort of thing makes natural languages quite annoying, but you can help by, well, not picking the most emotionally charged word which "technically matches".
gollark: If I say "that person is a criminal" you might very well have a worsened opinion of them, even if I know that all they actually did was jaywalking or something. It's technically not *false* to call them that but misleads.
gollark: Using a word which is technically right by a dictionary definition can be misleading because it has connotations which possible alternate choices of word don't.
gollark: They are important. Words aren't clear cut definitions like, say, mathematical objects, and the dictionary just points to some common uses.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stuckey, Georgia
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  3. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 214. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.



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