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 f...
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 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, Alabama C...
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 Ri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Thomas County, Georgia. Official Website Thomas County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 23, 1825. The county is named for Jett Thomas, an officer in the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Colquitt County Brooks County Mitchell County Grady County Leon County, Florida Jefferson County, Florida
This cemetery, established in 1875, is located on 2714 Carrollton Villa Rica Highway, Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 1147 Highway 113, Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia. It's also known as Concord Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery . Find a Grave Billion Graves Rhedesium USGW Archives
This cemetery is located on 1907 Dawson Road, Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Agnes Scott College is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia. The college enrolls approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Agnes Scott is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is considered one of the Seven Sisters of the South. It also offers co-educational graduate programs. The college was founded in 1889 as Decatur Female Seminary by Presbyt...
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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meriwether County, Georgia. Official Website The county was formed on December 14, 1827 as the 73rd county in Georgia. It was named for David Meriwether, a general in the American Revolutionary War and member of Congress from Georgia. The county is the site of The Little White House, which was the personal retreat of Franklin D. Ro...
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 the ...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cobb County, Georgia. Official Website 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 that the count...
Beaver Family Cemetery, Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, USA :
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Berghult Cemetery Blue Ridge, Fannin County, Georgia, USA :
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Muscogee County, Georgia. Its county seat and only city is Columbus , with which it has been a consolidated city-county since the beginning of 1971. The only other city in the county was Bibb City, a company town that disincorporated in December 2000, two years after its mill closed permanently. Fort Benning, a large Army installati...
Allen Cemetery,Blue Ridge, Fannin County, Georgia, USA: Also known as Allen-Wilson Family Cemetery
Union Community Cemetery, Mineral Bluff, Fannin County, Georgia, USA: Also known as Union Baptist Church Cemetery
The Old City Cemetery , also known as Linwood Cemetery, is a 28.7-acre cemetery on what is now Linwood Boulevard, in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. It dates from 1828, when the town of Columbus was founded, or before. It appears in surveyor Edward Lloyd Thomas's original plan for the city. The cemetery consists mostly of rectangular family plots bordered by iron fences or walls made of bri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Georgia.= Official Website =Morgan County was created on December 10, 1807. It was named for renowned Revolutionary War commander Daniel Morgan. During the American Civil War, the county provided the Panola Guards, which was a part of Cobb's Legion. Adjacent Counties * Greene County * Oconee County * Putnam County * Jas...
Wikipedia =Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. Find a Grave
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 expell...