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Ocilla, the county seat of Irwin County, incorporated as a town on November 24, 1897. Ocilla is a version of an old Native American name, Osceola.. During the Civil War, Irwinville, to the northeast of Ocilla, served as the county seat. In May 1865, after General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse, soldiers captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the town.