Sylvester started as a beautiful nowhere in 1893 and was first called Isabella Station. When the Brunswick and Albany Railroad came through southwest Georgia, the county seat was Isabella, which is located three miles north of the railroad.
It really is an incredibly long distance -- a lightyear is roughly 6 trillion miles or nearly 10 trillion kilometers. Here's how you calculate it. You start with the speed of light, which is about 186,000 miles per second. Then you multiply that by 3,600 seconds in an hour. Then you multiply that by 24 hours in a day.
A light year is the distance light travels in one year. That distance is 5,900,000,000,000 miles. Thatâs right, five trillion, nine hundred billion miles that light travels in one year. It is often rounded up to 6 trillion miles in a year or that a light year equals a distance of 6 trillion miles.