March 13, 2009

Norborn Young and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Young, were early settlers of Columbia County. Norborn assisted in the surveying of the county seat of Magnolia, which was incorporated in 1855. Local tradition records that Sarah suggested the name for the new county seat.

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