Tignall, GA

Tignall is a town in Wilkes County, Georgia, United States. The 2020 census counted 485 residents. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Tignall as a town in 1907. Tignall was named for Tignall Livingston Moss, a lieutenant in the Confederate army who was killed in battle in 1862. That mix gives Tignall a clear local shape within Georgia, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The town lies along Georgia State Route 17 south of Elberton and north of Washington, and a few miles west of the Georgia- South Carolina state line.