[6] The town was renamed Clinton[7] and was established as the county seat by the Georgia General Assembly on December 22, 1808.

After 1835, soil erosion and lack of funds to develop property drove many farmers to newly opened land elsewhere in Georgia.

During the Civil War, the cotton gin factory was reformatted so it could produce pistols and other weapons for the Confederate Army.

Griswoldville was located on the railway linking Macon to Savannah, and became a prime target in 1864 as the Union Army moved through Georgia.

Many other areas in Jones County were damaged by the Union Army during that time period.

In the 1890s a railroad line owned by the Central of Georgia Railway named the Macon & Northern Railroad was built through the county and bypassed Clinton by a mile after citizens wanted the line to not pass through the town.

[13] Father and son Alonzo and James D. Green were innocent African-Americans lynched near Round Oak and Wayside, Jones County in retaliation for the murder of popular white farmer Silas Hardin Turner on July 4, 1915.

[16] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 28,347 people, 10,701 households, and 7,670 families residing in the county.