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Please feel free to add profiles for people associated with the city of Atlanta. Wikipedia Atlanta (/ætˈlæntə/) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2019 population of 506,811,[10] 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 tha...
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 project is for those from Georgia and/or their respective Counties.In some cases only Counties are listed. Some communities are in two or more counties. If you have a specific community please do the following: (Name of Community),(Name of County),Georgia. Please go to following link for more information. Resources Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia
This project is for those from Hall County, Georgia. Wikipedia
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, SC Cities, Towns & Communities Canon
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in DeKalb County, Georgia. Official Website History DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721-1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. In 1853, Fulton County formed ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Official Website History The county was created in 1818 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, Gwinnett County was formed from parts of Jackson County (formerly part of Franklin County) and from lands gained through the cession of Creek Indian lands. Named for Button Gwinnett, one of the signatorie...
This project is intended to recognize the people of Habersham County, Georgia. Established in 1818 and named for Colonel Joseph Habersham who fought in the Revolutionary War. Habersham County is one of 18 counties that are a part of the Chattahoochee National Forest ' Cities of Habersham County ; Alto Baldwin Clarkesville Cornelia Demorest Mounty Airy Tallulah Falls Ha...
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Wikipedia The county is named for William Wyatt Bibb
Also known as Athens-Clarke County. Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clarke County, Georgia . Official Website History Clarke County was created in 1801 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 5. It was named for Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke and included 250 square miles that was formerly part of Jackson County . Colonel Clarke played a...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Georgia. Official Website Greene County was formed on February 3, 1786. It was named in honor of General Nathanael Greene, a hero of the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Hancock County Morgan County Oconee County Oglethorpe County Putnam County Taliaferro County Communities
Atlanta campaign (Umbrella Project) : Note this is an Umbrella Project for the entire Atlanta Campaign. Please add profiles to the battles your relative fought in. Western Theater of the American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Rocky Face Ridge (May 7–13, 1864): Resaca (May 13–15): Adairsville (May 17): New Hope Church (May 25–26): Dallas (May 26 – June 1): Pickett's Mill...
Battle of Resaca, May 13, 1864–May 15, 1864:
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 (3.07 km2) campus in Athens, Georgia, USA. It is considered Georgia's flagship university. The university is ranked 20th overall among all public national universities in the ...
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. Anderson County, SC Abbeville County, SC Hart County McCormick County, SC Lincoln County Wilkes County Oglethorpe County
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Wikipedia Great Locomotive Chase The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Ra...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah is the county seat of Chatham County. It was the British Colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and formerly, the first state capital of Georgia. ) ) for the sailing competition
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia . Official Website History In 1735, two years after James Oglethorpe founded Savannah , he sent a detachment of troops to explore the upper Savannah River. He gave them an order to build a fort at the head of the navigable part of the river. The expedition was led by Nobel Jones , who created a ...
This project is used to relate all units from Georgia who served in the Confederate Army. Georgia in the American Civil War Georgia Units During the Civil War
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Georgia. Official Website This area was historically occupied by the Creek Indians until Indian Removal in the 1830s. European Americans pushed them out and developed the land for cotton, bringing in thousands of African slaves to work the land. The county is named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grady County, Georgia. Official Website Grady County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on August 17, 1905, from portions of Decatur and Thomas counties. The county is named for Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and noted orator. Adjacent Counties Decatur County Mitchell County Gadsden...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gordon County, Georgia. Official Website History Gordon County was created on February 13, 1850 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and was named for William Washington Gordon (1796–1842), the first Georgian to graduate from West Point and first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad. Gordon County was originally o...
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 i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Glynn County, Georgia. Official Website Overview Glynn County, one of the original eight counties in the state created on February 5, 1777, was named after John Glynn, a member of the British House of Commons who defended the cause of the American Colonies before the American Revolution. The Battle of Bloody Marsh was fought in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chatham County, Georgia. Official Website History One of the original counties of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. it was formed out of Christ Church Parish and St. Phillip Parish. Although Georgia was originally planned as a colony with no slaves, Sava...
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 metro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Glascock County, Georgia. Official Website The county is named after Thomas Glascock, a soldier in the War of 1812, general in the First Seminole War and U.S. representative. Adjacent Counties Hancock County Jefferson County Warren County Washington County Communities Agricola Bastonville Edge Hill Gibson...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gilmer County, Georgia. The county was created on December 3, 1832 and was named for George Rockingham Gilmer. Adjacent Counties Dawson County Fannin County Gordon County Murray County Pickens County Cities & Communities Ai Cartecay Cherry Log East Ellijay Ellijay (County Seat) Tails Creek Whitepath...
Wikipedia Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the largest institution of higher education by enrollment based in Georgia and is in the top 10 in the nation in number of students with a diverse majority-minority student...
Wikipedia Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) is a public university in Americus, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia and offers bachelor's degree programs along with selected master's and specialist degree programs. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia Georgia College & State University (Georgia College or GCSU) is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia. The university enrolls approximately 7,000 students and is a member of the University System of Georgia. Georgia College was designated Georgia's "Public Liberal Arts University" in 1996 by the Georgia Board of Regents. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Find a Grave
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The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. State of Georgia. It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directly elected by constituents of their district. The Georgia State Constitution vests all legislative power with the General Assembly. Both houses have similar ...
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Wikipedia Gainesville State College was a state college of the University System of Georgia serving northeast Georgia. The Gainesville State College Gainesville Campus, located 45 miles northeast of Atlanta and six miles southwest of downtown Gainesville in Oakwood, was on Georgia State Route 53 less than a mile from I-985 exit 16. The Gainesville State College Oconee Campus was located on Bi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Echols County, Georgia. Official Website Overview On December 13, 1858, the Georgia General Assembly passed a bill establishing Echols County in honor of Robert Milner Echols. Echols County has become notable in recent years as it has served as a place of banishment for many of Georgia's criminals. As the Georgia State Constit...
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Wikipedia Fort Valley State University (FVSU) is a public historically black university (HBCU) in Fort Valley, Georgia, United States. It is a unit of the University System of Georgia and a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Notable Alumni
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chattooga County, Georgia. Official Website History Chattooga County is named for the Chattooga River, which flows through it. It was originally settled by the 'mound builder' culture. A few small mounds can be found throughout the Alpine and Menlo areas. Sometime in the pre-European settlement era, the county was settled by at ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Forsyth County, Georgia. Official Website History For thousands of years, varying indigenous cultures lived in this area along the Etowah River. Starting near the end of the first millennium, Mound Builders of the Mississippian culture settled in this area; they built earthwork mound structures at nearby Etowah in present-day Ba...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Floyd County, Georgia. Official Website The county was established on December 3, 1832, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, and was created from land that was part of Cherokee County at the time. The county is named after United States Congressman John Floyd. Adjacent Counties Bartow County Cherokee County, Ala. ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Georgia. Official Website Fayette County was organized in 1821 after the United States signed a treaty at Indian Springs, Georgia with the Creek people for cession of a large portion of their land. The county and its seat, Fayetteville, were both named in honor of the French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette, who...
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Official Website Wikipedia The county is named for Col. Francis Stebbins Bartow .
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This project is for people who were born, lived or died in Fannin County, Georgia. Wikipedia
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Evans County, Georgia. Official Website Overview On August 11, 1914, the Georgia General Assembly proposed a constitutional amendment to create Evans County. Georgia voters ratified the proposed amendment on November 3, 1914, which marks the official date of Evans County's creation. The county was named in honor of Clement A. Ev...
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Wikipedia The county is named for Abraham Baldwin
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Emanuel County, Georgia. Official Website Emanuel County was created on December 10, 1812 and is named in honor of former Governor of Georgia David Emanuel. Adjacent Counties Burke County Candler County Jefferson County Jenkins County Tattnall County Bulloch County Toombs County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cobb County, Georgia. Official Website History Cobb county was one of nine Georgia counties carved out of the disputed territory of the Cherokee Nation in 1832. It was the 81st county in Georgia and named for Judge Thomas Willis Cobb, who served as a U.S. Senator, state representative, and superior court judge. It is believed th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbus, Georgia. Columbus is the county seat of Muscogee County and lies on the Chattahoochee River on the border of Alabama . Official Website History Founded in 1828 by an act of the Georgia Legislature, Columbus was situated at the beginning of the navigable portion of the Chattahoochee River and on the last stretch of th...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Coweta County, Georgia. Official Website The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. The counties' boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, 1826, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. Coweta County was named...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Effingham County, Georgia. Official Website Effingham was among the original counties of the state of Georgia, created February 5, 1777 during the American Revolution from the colonial parishes of St. Matthew and St. Phillip. Its name honors Lord Effingham, an English champion of colonial rights, who resigned his commission rather...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Early County, Georgia. Official Website History The county area was long territory of the historic Creek Indian peoples of the Southeast, particularly along the Chattahoochee River. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, European-American settlers began to encroach on this territory, pushing the Muscogee out during Indian Re...
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Wikipedia The county is named for Preston S. Brooks .
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Georgia. Official Website Overview The county was created during Reconstruction after the US Civil War when many blacks were serving in the Georgia legislature, and was named Douglass County after the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but the name was soon changed when Confederate Democrats regained power and expe...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dougherty County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created by the Georgia General Assembly on December 15, 1853, from a part of Baker County. It was named after Charles Dougherty, a respected judge and lawyer from Athens, Georgia. In 1854 and 1856 small areas were added from Worth County. Albany was a center of the Civil...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dooly County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on May 15, 1821 and named for Colonel John Dooly, a Georgia American revolutionary war fighter. It was one of the original landlot counties created from land ceded from the Creek Nation. Adjacent Counties Houston County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dodge County, Georgia. History Dodge County, Georgia was established in 1870. Georgia's 134th county was named for William E. Dodge, a New York businessman who owned large tracts of forest land in Georgia and built the first county courthouse in 1908 as a gift. Eastman, the largest city and the county seat, was named for William...
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Carroll County The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Decatur County, Georgia. The county was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 8, 1823, from a portion of Early County. In 1825, a portion of Decatur was used in the creation of Thomas County. In 1905, another portion of Decatur was used in the creation of part of Grady County. In 1920, the western portion of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dawson County, Georgia. Official Website History Dawson County was created on December 3, 1857, from Gilmer and Lumpkin Counties.[3] It is named for William Crosby Dawson, a U.S. Senator from Georgia. The 1860s brought war and hardships to the people of Dawson County. Many men of Dawson County answered the call and went to fig...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clayton County, Georgia. Official Website The county was established in 1858 and named in honor of Augustin Smith Clayton (1783–1839), who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1832 until 1835. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County Henry County Spalding County Fayette County Fulton County Cities & C...
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Wikipedia The county is named for Bvt. Maj. Francis Dade .
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coffee County, Georgia. Coffee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on February 9, 1854, from portions of Clinch, Irwin, Telfair, and Ware counties. These lands were originally ceded by the Creek in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in (1814) and the Treaty of the Creek Agency (1818) and apportioned to the above cou...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crisp County, Georgia. The county was created on August 17, 1905 from Dooly County and named for Georgia Congressman Charles Frederick Crisp. Crisp County became the first county in the nation to own and operate its own electrical power plant. It was started in 1930, with Lake Blackshear on the Flint River providing its power sour...