Romanesque Revival schoolhouse housing the room where Oliver Hardy attended first grade. Albert T. Harris, World War II naval hero, was born in Madison. Allie Carroll Hart (1913–2003), director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1964 to 1982 Bill Hartman (William Coleman "Bill" Hartman, Jr., March 17, 1915 – March 16, 2006), Washington Redskins running back, started playing American football in Madison. Joshua Hill (January 10, 1812 – March 6, 1891), U.S. senator who lived in Madison. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman, a friend of Hill, did not burn Madison on his "March to the Sea". Eugenius Aristides Nisbet began his practice of law in Madison Georgia, before later being elected as one of the three initial justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1845. Brooks Pennington Jr., businessman, philanthropist and politician, operated his father's seed store on Main Street. Seaborn Reese (November 28, 1846 – March 1, 1907), politician, jurist and lawyer, was born in Madison. Reese filled the seat for Georgia in the United States House of Representatives during the 47th United States Congress. He was reelected to the 48th and 49th Congresses, serving from December 4, 1882, until March 3, 1887. Mark Schlabach, sports journalist, New York Times best-selling author and columnist and reporter for ESPN.com, lives in Madison. William Tappan Thompson, humorist and writer who co-founded the Savannah Morning News newspaper in the 1850s, lived in Madison in the 1840s and worked on the city's first newspaper, The Southern Miscellany''. Jesse Triplett, lead guitarist with Collective Soul, was born in Madison and attended the Morgan County School System. Philip Lee Williams (born January 30, 1950), novelist, poet, and essayist, grew up in Madison. See also List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Georgia References Further reading External links Government General information Community Settlement Historical Marker at the Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) Madison Historical Marker at Digital Library of Georgia Madison – Morgan Chamber of Commerce at Madison Studios (madisonstudios.com) Madison – Morgan County Convention & Visitors Bureau at Madison Studios (madisonstudios.com) Morgan County Library at Azalea Regional Library System 1809 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Morgan County, Georgia County seats in Georgia (U.S. state) Planned cities in the United States Populated places established in 1809