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.
One light year is the distance that light travels in one year. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, or 300,000 km per second. There are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour. There are 24 hours in a day and a year is 365.25 days long. So, multiply 186,000 times 60 times 60 times 24 times 365.25.