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Please feel free to add profiles for people associated with the city of Atlanta. Wikipedia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2019 population of 506,811, it is also the 37th most populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to more than 6 million people ...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Elbert County, Georgia. Official Website The county was established on December 10, 1790 and was named for Samuel Elbert. Adjacent Counties Anderson County, South Carolina Abbeville County, South Carolina Hart County McCormick County, South Carolina Lincoln County Wilkes County Oglethorpe County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Heard County, Georgia. Official Website Heard County was created by Act of the Legislature on December 22, 1830. It was named for Stephen Heard, elected President of the Council on February 18, 1781. Adjacent Counties Carroll County Coweta County Troup County Randolph County, Alabama Communities Centralhatchee Cori...
The lands of Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta, and Carroll counties were ceded by the Creek people in the Treaty of Indian Springs (1825). This was a huge amount of land in Georgia and Alabama, the last remaining portion of the Creeks' territory, and it was ceded by William McIntosh, the chief of the Lower Creek and a member of the National Council. This cession violated the Law, the Code of 1818 t...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Georgia. Official Website On February 25, 1784 Franklin became Georgia's 8th county. It was named in honor of patriot Benjamin Franklin. Adjacent Counties Elbert County Hart County Madison County Banks County Stephens County Oconee County, South Carolina Cities, Towns & Communities
During the Civil War 1861-1865, the property was that of the McCord Plantation, and the home that was on the McCord Plantation was named Stately Oaks. At that time the plantation was 140 acres. Stately Oaks was the home (after it was enlarged) on the movie "Gone With the Wind , which premiered in the mid-1930s. There are some unknown graves under the magnolias that were located on the plantatio...
South View Cemetery Also known as Southview Cemetery, 1990 Jonesboro Rd SE Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 30315 USA Find a Grave Unable to enter white owned cemeteries for burial, nine men, born enslaved, gathered at Friendship Baptist Church and organized the South-View Cemetery Association. The Charter was secured from the State of Georgia on April 21, 1886. South-View Cemetery is the o...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Fulton County, Georgia. History Fulton County was created in 1853. It was named in honor of Hamilton Fulton, a railroad official who acted as surveyor for the Western and Atlantic Railroad and also as chief engineer of the state. After surveying the area that is now Fulton County, Fulton convinced state officials that a railroad...
This subportal is part of the State of Georgia Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities & Towns Atlanta Augusta Blue Ridge Columbus Epworth
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Henry County, Georgia. Official Website Henry County, Georgia was created by the Georgia State Legislature in 1821 from land acquired from the Creek Indian Nation by the First Treaty of Indian Springs. Jesse Johnson, son of John Johnson and great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, was a "first settler" of Henry Co...
Wikipedia ==Georgia Tech=The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.The educational institution was founded in 1885 ...
Wikipedia University of Georgia The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American land-grant university and sea grant research university. Its primary campus is located on a 759-acre campus in Athens, Georgia, USA. It is considered Georgia's flagship university. The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national univers...
researched and written by Dr. Pam Wilson, Reinhardt University and Cartersville Downtown Development Authority History Task Force NOTE: More than 6000 historical African American profiles from Cartersville and Bartow County have been added to the Geni family tree database, but I've only tagged heads of family or notable family members (see list below) as part of this project. Many, many other n...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hart County, Georgia. Hart County was created December 7, 1853 and named for Nancy Hart, a rebel heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the northeast Georgia backcountry. Adjacent Counties Anderson County, South Carolina Oconee County, South Carolina Elbert County Madison Co...
Wikipedia ==Emory University=Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. In 1915, the college relocated to metropo...
The following is from Richard Wilson's Find A Grave Profile 73681317Birth: 1767, Ireland Death: Apr. 11, 1850 Savannah Jackson County North Carolina, USARichard Wilson was married to Rachel Strain (1773-1851), daughter of Andrew Strain, Sr. and his wife Mary (Burgin?) Strain, about 1794 in North Carolina (either Iredell or Burke County). Together they have nine known children. It has been sai...
The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville, Georgia and later Troupville, Georgia for those in Lowndes County, and Irwinville, Georgia for those in Irwin County. By at least June 1853, citizens had petitioned to form a new county. The 1853 attempt of a new county failed. ...
Baldwin County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,799. The county seat is Milledgeville, which was developed along the Oconee River. Baldwin County is part of the Milledgeville, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Georgia Links Wikipedia
This project is a compilation of the research recently done for Washington County, Georgia.Washington County around established February 25, 1784 from the Creek Indian Cession of November 1, 1783. The county originally included all the territory "from the Cherokee Corner, north extending from the Ogeechee River to the Oconee River, south to Liberty County." It approximately ten times larger tha...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Georgia. Official Website At the time of European contact, the area of what would become Wayne County was settled by the Guale people. Being close to the coast and bordered by the Altamaha River, Wayne County's history includes occupation by Spanish missionaries at the time of the settlement of Saint Augustine as well ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Webster County, Georgia. Official Website Webster County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 16, 1853, as Kinchafoonee County. A subsequent legislative act on February 21, 1856, changed the name to Webster. The county is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wheeler County, Georgia. Official Website Wheeler County is named after Confederate General Joseph Wheeler. The constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed August 14, 1912, and ratified November 5, 1912. Adjacent Counties Treutlen County Montgomery County Jeff Davis County Telfair County Dodge County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Whitfield County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 30, 1851, and named after George Whitefield, Methodist evangelist.[3] The "e" was omitted to reflect the pronunciation of his name. Adjacent Counties Bradley County, Tenn. Murray County Gordon County Walker County Catoosa County Hamilton ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilcox County, Georgia. Wilcox County was formed on December 22, 1857. The county was named for General Mark Wilcox, a Georgia state legislator and one of the founders of the Georgia Supreme Court. Adjacent Counties Pulaski County Dodge County Telfair County Ben Hill County Dooly County Crisp County Turner County