Marker Text: This county, created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 15, 1818, Dec. 21, 1819, and Dec. 20, 1824, is named for Colonel Daniel Appling, who served in the War of 1812.  Residents voted Baxley as the county seat in 1872 and it was incorporated in 1875. The first seat, approved by the Legislature in 1828, was at Holmesville, which was chartered in 1854. Among the first county officers, who took office in 1820, were: Sheriff William Carter, Clerk of Superior and Inferior Courts John McAuley, Coroner James Mixon, and Surveyor Daniel S. Whitehurst.

Re-erected in 2021 by the Georgia Historical Society

*Marker not in place due to damage or maintenance.