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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Worth County, Georgia. Official Website Worth County was created on December 20, 1853, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, becoming Georgia's 106th county. It was named for Major General William J. Worth of New York. Adjacent Counties Crisp County Turner County Tift County Colquitt County Mitchell County Doug...
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 fir...
This project is for those buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Walker County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 18, 1833, from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation. It was named after Georgia's U.S. Senator, Freeman Walker (1780-1827). Civil War battles fought in Walker County were part of the Chickamauga Campaign fought between August 21 and Septemb...
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. Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Catoosa County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 5, 1853. The meaning of the Cherokee language name "Catoosa" is obscure. The Battle of Ringgold Gap was fought November 27, 1863, in northwest Georgia during the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. The Confederate victory by Maj. Gen. Patrick C...
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...
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 ...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harris County, Georgia. Official Website Overview The county was settled by European Americans largely after the federal government had forcibly removed the indigenous Creek people (Muscogee), who were relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. In the antebellum era, parts of the county were developed for cotton ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Haralson County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on January 26, 1856 and was named for Hugh A. Haralson, a former Georgia congressman. Carroll County Cleburne County, Alabama Paulding County Polk County Communities Abernathys Mill Besma Bremen Buchanan (County Seat) Budapest Draketown ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 17, 1793 and named for John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties Glascock County Warren County Greene County Putnam County Taliaferro County Baldwin County Washington County
Hall County was created on December 15, 1818, from Cherokee lands ceded by the Treaty of Cherokee Agency (1817) and Treaty of Washington (1819). The county is named for Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Georgia as both colony and state. Wikipedia
This project is intended to recognize the people of Habersham County, Georgia. Official Website 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 (County Seat) Cornelia Demorest Mou...
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 signatories ...
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This area was inhabited for thousands of years by successive indigenous peoples. The Ocmulgee National Monument is a national park and historic site incorporating two major mound and town complexes: Lamar Mounds and Village Site and Ocmulgee Mound Site, both located along the Ocmulgee River. They were built by indigenous peoples during the Mississippian culture era. The detailed chronicles of t...
The Colonial Period The first recorded European to visit what is today Camden County was Captain Jean Ribault of France in 1562. Ribault was sent out by French Huguenots to find a suitable place for a settlement. Ribault named the rivers he saw the Seine and the Some, known today as the St. Marys and Satilla Rivers. Ribault described the area as, "Fairest, fruitfulest and pleasantest of all t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Liberty County, Georgia. Official Website Liberty County is part of the Hinesville, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, Georgia Combined Statistical Area. Liberty County was established in 1777. It is named for the American ideal of liberty. Sunbury was first designate...
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
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pickens County, Georgia. Official Website The Georgia General Assembly passed an act on December 5, 1853 to create Pickens County. It is named for American Revolutionary War General Andrew Pickens. Most of Pickens County's early industry revolved around marble. Georgia Marble Company is located in Marble Hill near Tate. The marble ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia County, Georgia.= Official Website = History Columbia County, the 12th county formed in Georgia, was created by an act of the Legislature of Georgia on December 10, 1790 from Richmond County.During the American Revolution, two small battles occurred in what would become Columbia County between Patriot Militia and Tories; the ...
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...
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 Gl...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Georgia Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time. The discovery of gold in local str...