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The city of Fitzgerald is the county seat of Ben Hill County in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 9,053. It is the principal city of the Fitzgerald Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Ben Hill and Irwin counties.

The Ben Hill County Jail is a historic building in Fitzgerald, Georgia, located on Pine Street. It was built in 1909 in the Romanesque style, the first jail in the 1906-created county. It was designed by J. Reginald MacEachron, selected by a design competition in which 14 architects submitted proposals for the county's courthouse and jail.

The Blue and Gray Museum in Fitzgerald, Georgia is located in a historic railroad depot that has been renovated to showcase the story of Fitzgerald's history and connections with the American Civil War. At the museum's core is its Hall of Honor, dedicated to the Civil War veterans who established the city.

Ben Hill County Courthouse is the historic county courthouse of Ben Hill County, Georgia, located in Fitzgerald. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. It is located at East Central Avenue at South Sheridan Street.

The Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Library is a public library serving the county of Ben Hill County, Georgia. It is a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System, which it joined in 2018. Prior to that, the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill library constituted its own library system.The library is a member of PINES, a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 53 library systems in 143 counties of Georgia.