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County | County Seat | Date Created | Origin | Named For | Host | Map | Mailing List |
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Appling County | Baxley | 1818 | Land ceded by the Creek Indians in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814 and the Treaty of the Creek Agency in 1818 | Colonel Daniel Appling, hero of the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Atkinson County | Pearson | 1917 | Clinch and Coffee | William Yates Atkinson, governor of Georgia and speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bacon County | Alma | 1914 | Appling, Pierce and Ware | Augustus Octavius Bacon, US Senator; president pro tempore of the United States Senate | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Baker County | Newton | 1825 | Early | Colonel John Baker, American Revolutionary War hero | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Baldwin County | Milledgeville | 1803 | Creek Cessations of 1802 and 1805 | Abraham Baldwin, Founding Father, US Senator, one of the Georgia delegates who signed the US Constitution | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Banks County | Homer | 1858 | Franklin and Habersham | Dr Richard Banks, a local physician | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Barrow County | Winder | 1914 | Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton | "Uncle Dave" David Crenshaw Barrow Jr, chancellor of the University of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bartow County | Cartersville | 1832 | Created from a portion of Cherokee County in 1832 and originally called Cass County after General Lewis Cass | General Francis S Bartow, Confederate political leader, first Confederate general killed in the American Civil War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Ben Hill County | Fitzgerald | 1906 | Irwin and Wilcox | Benjamin Harvey Hill, US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Berrien County | Nashville | 1856 | Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes | John MacPherson Berrien, US Senator, United States Attorney General | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bibb County | Macon | 1822 | Houston, Jones, Monroe and Twiggs | Dr William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama, US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bleckley County | Cochran | 1912 | Pulaski | Logan Edwin Bleckley, Georgia State Supreme Court Chief Justice | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Brantley County | Nahunta | 1920 | Charlton, Pierce and Wayne | Either Benjamin D Brantley or William Gordon Brantley, US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Brooks County | Quitman | 1858 | Lowndes and Thomas | Captain Preston S Brooks, hero of the Mexican�American War and Congressman from South Carolina | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bryan County | Pembroke | 1793 | Chatham | Jonathan Bryan, a colonial settler and famous state representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Bulloch County | Statesboro | 1796 | Bryan and Screven | Archibald Bulloch, Revolutionary War soldier, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, and acting governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Burke County | Waynesboro | 1777 | Originally Organized as St Georges Parish | Edmund Burke, British political philosopher and Member of Parliament who was sympathetic to the cause of US independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Butts County | Jackson | 1825 | Henry and Monroe | Captain Samuel Butts, a hero of the Creek War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Calhoun County | Morgan | 1854 | Early and Baker | John C Calhoun, US Representatative, Senator, and Vice President from South Carolina | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Camden County | Woodbine | 1777 | St Mary and St Thomas Parishes | Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain who was sympathetic to the cause of the Revolution | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Candler County | Metter | 1914 | Bulloch, Emanuel and Tattnall | Allen Daniel Candler, state legislator, US Representative and Governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Carroll County | Carrollton | 1826 | Creek Cessation 1825 | Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Catoosa County | Ringgold | 1853 | Walker and Whitfield | Chief Catoosa, a Cherokee chief | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Charlton County | Folkston | 1854 | Camden | Robert Milledge Charlton, jurist, US Senator and mayor of Savannah | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Chatham County | Savannah | 1777 | Christ Church and St Phillip Parishes | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, British Prime Minister sympathetic to the Revolutionary cause | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Chattahoochee County | Cusseta | 1854 | Muscogee and Marion | Chattahoochee River, which forms the county's (and the state's) western border | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Chattooga County | Summerville | 1838 | Walker and Floyd | Chattooga River | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Cherokee County | Canton | 1831 | Cherokee Cessation of 1831 | Cherokee Nation, which controlled this part of the state autonomously until 1831 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Clarke County | Athens | 1801 | Jackson | Elijah Clarke, a Revolutionary War hero | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Clay County | Fort Gaines | 1854 | Randolph and Early | Henry Clay, Secretary of State, Speaker of the House of Representatives and US Senator from Kentucky | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Clayton County | Jonesboro | 1858 | Fayette and Henry | Augustin Smith Clayton, a local jurist and Congressman | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Clinch County | Homerville | 1850 | Lowndes and Ware | General Duncan Lamont Clinch, a hero of the War of 1812 and the Seminole War and US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Cobb County | Marietta | 1832 | Cherokee | Colonel Thomas Willis Cobb, a hero of the War of 1812 and US Congressman | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Coffee County | Douglas | 1854 | Clinch, Irwin, Telfair and Ware | General John E Coffee, a hero of the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Colquitt County | Moultrie | 1856 | Thomas and Lowndes | Walter Terry Colquitt, Methodist preacher and US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Columbia County | Apling | 1790 | Richmond | Christopher Columbus, explorer | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Cook County | Adel | 1918 | Berrien | General Philip Cook, Confederate general and secretary of state | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Coweta County | Newnan | 1826 | Created on Creek lands ceded in 1825 in the treaty of Indian Springs and Creek Cessions of 1826 | Coweta Tribe of the Creek Nation | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Crawford County | Knoxville | 1822 | Houston | William Harris Crawford, US Senator, minister to France and Secretary of the Treasury | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Crisp County | Cordele | 1905 | Dooley | Charles Frederick Crisp, speaker of the US House of Representatives | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Dade County | Trenton | 1837 | Walker | Major Francis L Dade, hero of the Seminole War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Dawson County | Dawsonville | 1857 | Gilmer and Lumpkin | William Crosby Dawson, US Senator and state legislator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Decatur County | Bainbridge | 1823 | Early | Commodore Stephen Decatur, a War of 1812 naval hero | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
DeKalb County | Decatur | 1822 | Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette | "Baron" Johann DeKalb a German who accompanied the Marquis de Lafayette and was inspector general of the Colonial Army | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Dodge County | Eastman | 1870 | Montgomery, Pulaski and Telfair | William Earle Dodge, a New York temperance leader, businessman, and cofounder of Phelps, Dodge and Company, a mining and metals company | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Dooly County | Vienna | 1821 | Creek Cessation of 1821 | Colonel John Dooly, a hero of the American Revolution | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Dougherty County | Albany | 1853 | Baker | Charles Dougherty, a noted Athens judge | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Douglas County | Douglasville | 1870 | Campbell and Carroll | Stephen Arnold Douglas, an Illinois Democratic Congressman who ran against Abraham Lincoln in the United States presidential election, 1860 and lost | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Early County | Blakely | 1818 | Creek Cessation of 1814 | Peter Early, tenth governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Echols County | Statenville | 1858 | Clinch and Lowndes | General Robert M Echols, state legislator and hero of the Mexican-American War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Effingham County | Springfield | 1777 | St Matthew and St Phillip Parishes | Thomas Howard, Third Earl of Effingham, who was sympathetic to the independence movement | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Elbert County | Elberton | 1790 | Wilkes | Samuel Elbert a General in the Revolutionary War, who became the governor of Georgia in 1785 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Emanuel County | Swainsboro | 1808 | Bulloch and Montgomery | Colonel David Emanuel, who became governor of Georgia in 1801 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Evans County | Claxton | 1914 | Bulloch and Tattnall | General Clement Anselm Evans, hero of the Civil War and commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Fannin County | Blue Ridge | 1854 | Gilmer and Union | Colonel James Walker Fannin Jr, hero of the Texas Revolution. | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Fayette County | Fayetteville | 1821 | Creek Cessation of 1821 | Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Floyd County | Rome | 1832 | Cherokee | General John Floyd, Indian fighter and U.S. Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Forsyth County | Cumming | 1832 | Cherokee | John Forsyth, Secretary of State under President Martin Van Buren | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Franklin County | Carnesville | 1784 | Cherokee and Creek Cessations of 1783 | Benjamin Franklin, First US ambassador to France | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Fulton County | Atlanta | 1853 | Campbell, Cobb, DeKalb and Milton | Robert Fulton, engineer and inventor, or Hamilton Fulton, Chief Engineer of the State of Georgia in 1853 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Gilmer County | Ellijay | 1832 | Cherokee | George Rockingham Gilmer, 16th governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Glascock | Gibson | 1857 | Warren | General Thomas Glascock, hero of the War of 1812 and the Seminole War of 1817, and U.S. Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Glynn County | Brunswick | 1777 | St David and St Patrick Parishes | John Glynn, British Member of Parliament and Sergeant-at-law, who was sympathetic to the cause of American independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Gordon County | Calhoun | 1850 | Cass and Floyd | William Washington Gordon, first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Grady County | Cairo | 1905 | Decatur and Thomas | Henry Woodfin Grady, famous orator and managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Greene County | Greensboro | 1786 | Washington | General Nathanael Greene, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Gwinnett County | Lawrenceville | 1818 | Cherokee Cessation of 1817 and Creek Cessation of 1818 | Button Gwinnett, one of Georgia's delegates to the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Habersham County | Clarkesville | 1818 | Cherokee Cessations of 1817 and 1819 | Colonel Joseph Habersham, hero of the Revolutionary War and Postmaster General in the Cabinet of George Washington | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Hall County | Gainesville | 1818 | Cherokee Cessations of 1817 and 1819 | Dr Lyman Hall, one of Georgia's delegates to the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence. He became governor of Georgia in 1783 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Hancock County | Sparta | 1793 | Greene and Washington | John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Haralson County | Buchanan | 1856 | Carroll and Polk | General Hugh Anderson Haralson, US Congressman | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Harris County | Hamilton | 1827 | Muscogee and Troup | Charles Harris, a prominent Savannah attorney | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Hart County | Hartwell | 1853 | Elbert and Franklin | Nancy Morgan Hart, heroine of the Revolutionary War. | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Heard County | Franklin | 1830 | Carroll, Coweta and Troup | Stephen Heard, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Henry County | McDonough | 1821 | Creek Cessation of 1821 | Patrick Henry, prominent lawyer, orator, and patriot | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Houston County | Perry | 1821 | Creek Cessation of 1821 | John Houstoun, member of the Continental Congress who became governor of Georgia in 1778 | Mailing List | ||
Irwin County | Ocilla | 1818 | Creek Cessations of 1814 and 1818 | Jared Irwin, governor who rescinded the Yazoo Act in 1796 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jackson County | Jefferson | 1796 | Franklin | General James Jackson, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jasper County | Monticello | 1807 | Randolph | Sergeant William Jasper, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jeff Davis County | Hazlehurst | 1905 | Appling and Coffee | Jefferson Davis, first and only President of the Confederate States of America | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jefferson County | Louisville | 1797 | Burke and Washington | Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jenkins County | Millen | 1905 | Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel and Screven | Charles Jones Jenkins, governor of Georgia, who was the author of the famous Georgia Platform of 1850 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Johnson County | Wrightsville | 1858 | Emanuel, Laurens and Washington | Herschel Vespasian Johnson, US Senator and Georgia governor | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Jones County | Gray | 1807 | Baldwin | James Jones, US Congressman | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Lamar County | Barnesville | 1920 | Monroe and Pike | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, US Senator and justice of the US Supreme Court | Peggy McSwain | Mailing List | |
Lanier County | Lakeland | 1920 | Berrien, Clinch and Lowndes | Sidney Lanier, famous attorney, linguist, mathematician, and musician | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Laurens County | Dublin | 1807 | Wilkinson | Colonel John Laurens, aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Lee County | Leesburg | 1826 | Creek Cessation of 1826 | General Richard Henry Lee, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Liberty County | Hinesville | 1777 | St Andrew, St James and St John Parishes | Named in honor of the noted patriotism of the citizens of Midway in their support of the cause of colonial independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Lincoln County | Lincolnton | 1796 | Wilkes | General Benjamin Lincoln, hero of the Revolutionary War who was later assigned to the suppression of Shays' Rebellion | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Long County | Ludowici | 1920 | Liberty | Dr Crawford Williamson Long, in 1842 the first man to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic for surgery | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Lowndes County | Valdosta | 1825 | Irwin | William Jones Lowndes, a prominent figure in the affairs of South Carolina throughout the formative years of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Lumpkin County | Dahlonega | 1832 | Cherokee, Habersham and Hall | Wilson Lumpkin, governor of Georgia and US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Macon County | Oglethorpe | 1837 | Houston and Marion | General Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives and US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Madison County | Danielsville | 1811 | Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Jackson and Oglethorpe | James Madison, fourth President of the United States and chief drafter of the Constitution | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Marion County | Buena Vista | 1827 | Lee and Muscogee | General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
McDuffie County | Thomson | 1870 | Columbia and Warren | George McDuffie, famous orator and governor of South Carolina | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
McIntosh County | Darien | 1793 | Liberty | General Lachlan McIntosh, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Meriwether County | Greenville | 1827 | Troup | General David Meriwether, a hero of the Revolutionary War and a US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Miller County | Colquitt | 1856 | Baker and Early | Andrew Jackson Miller, president of the Medical College of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Mitchell County | Camilla | 1857 | Baker | Gen Henry Mitchell, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Monroe County | Forsyth | 1821 | Creek Cessation of 1821 | James Monroe, fifth President of the United States and author of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Montgomery County | Mount Vernon | 1793 | Washington | General Richard Montgomery, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Morgan County | Madison | 1807 | Baldwin | General Daniel Morgan, hero of the Revolutionary War and US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Murray County | Chatsworth | 1832 | Cherokee | Thomas W Murray, famous state legislator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Muscogee County | Columbus | 1826 | Creek Cessation of 1826 | Muskogee ethnic group, to which the Creek and Seminole Nations belong | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Newton County | Covington | 1821 | Henry, Jasper and Walton | Sergeant John Newton, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Oconee County | Watkinsville | 1875 | Clarke | Oconee River, which forms its eastern boundary | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Oglethorpe County | Lexington | 1793 | Wilkes | General James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Paulding County | Dallas | 1832 | Cherokee | John Paulding, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Peach County | Fort Valley | 1924 | Houston and Macon | Its location in Central Georgia is one of the richest peach producing regions in the state | Fran Smith | Mailing List | |
Pickens County | Jasper | 1853 | Cherokee and Gilmer | General Andrew Pickens, hero of the Revolutionary War and US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Pierce County | Blackshear | 1857 | Appling and Ware | Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Pike County | Zebulon | 1822 | Monroe | General Zebulon Pike, explorer and hero of the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Polk County | Cedartown | 1851 | Floyd and Paulding | James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Pulaski County | Hawkinsville | 1808 | Laurens | Count Kazimierz Pulaski of Poland, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Putnam | Eatonton | 1807 | Baldwin | General Israel Putnam, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Quitman | Georgetown | 1858 | Randolph and Stewart | General John Anthony Quitman, hero of the Mexican-American War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Rabun | Clayton | 1819 | Cherokee Cessation of 1819 | William Rabun, governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Randolph County | Cuthbert | 1828 | Lee | John Randolph of Roanoke, US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Richmond County | Augusta | 1777 | St Paul Parish | Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, who was sympathetic to the cause of colonial independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Rockdale County | Conyers | 1870 | Henry and Newton | Rockdale Church, which was so named for the subterranean bed of granite that underlies this region of the state | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Schley County | Ellaville | 1857 | Marion and Sumter | William Schley, governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Screven County | Sylvania | 1793 | Burke and Effingham | General James Screven, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Seminole County | Donalson | 1920 | Decatur and Early | Seminole Nation | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Spalding County | Griffin | 1851 | Fayette, Henry and Pike | Thomas Spalding, US Representative; Georgia delegate to the Constitutional convention of 1798 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Stephens County | Toccoa | 1905 | Franklin and Habersham | Alexander Stephens, US Representative; governor of Georgia; first and only Vice President of the Confederate States of America | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Stewart County | Lumpkin | 1830 | Randolph | General Daniel Stewart, hero of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Sumter County | Americus | 1831 | Lee | General Thomas Sumter, the "Fighting Gamecock," hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Talbot County | Talbotton | 1827 | Muscogee | Matthew Talbot, served in the Georgia State Senate for 15 years, including two as Senate President; governor of Georgia for two weeks | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Taliaferro County | Crawfordville | 1825 | Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Warren and Wilkes | Colonel Benjamin Taliaferro, US Representative and hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Tattnall County | Reidsville | 1801 | Montgomery | Josiah Tattnall, US Senator and governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Taylor County | Butler | 1852 | Macon, Marion and Talbot | Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Telfair County | McRae | 1807 | Wilkinson | Edward Telfair, second governor of Georgia after the establishment of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Terrell County | Dawson | 1856 | Lee and Randolph | Dr William Terrell, US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Thomas County | Thomasville | 1825 | Decatur and Irwin | General Jett Thomas, hero of the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Tift County | Tifton | 1905 | Berrien, Irwin and Worth | Colonel Nelson Tift, Confederate States Navy captain; US Representative | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Toombs County | Lyons | 1905 | Emanuel, Montgomery and Tattnall | General Robert Toombs, US Senator; Confederate States Secretary of State | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Towns County | Hiawassee | 1857 | Rabun and Union | George Washington Towns, governor of Georgia during the antebellum period | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Treutlen County | Soperton | 1917 | Emanuel and Montgomery | John A Treutlen, first elected governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Troup County | Lagrange | 1826 | Creek Cessation of 1826 | George M Troup, governor of Georgia and US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Turner County | Ashburn | 1905 | Dooly, Irwin, Wilcox and Worth | Captain Henry Gray Turner, US Representative and hero of the Civil War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Twiggs County | Jeffersonville | 1809 | Wilkinson | General John Twiggs, hero of the Revolutionary War, governor of Georgia | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Union County | Blairsville | 1832 | Cherokee | Federal Union | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Upson County | Thomaston | 1824 | Crawford and Pike | Stephen Upson, famous state legislator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Walker County | Lafayett | 1833 | Murray | Major Freeman Walker, US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Walton County | Monroe | 1818 | Creek Cessation of 1818 | George Walton, one of Georgia's delegates to the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Ware County | Waycross | 1824 | Appling | Nicholas Ware, US Senator | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Warren County | Warrenton | 1793 | Columbia, Hancock, Richmond and Wilkes | General Joseph Warren, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Washington County | Sandersville | 1784 | Creek Cessation of 1783 | George Washington, first President of the United States | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Wayne County | Jesup | 1803 | Creek Cessation of 1802 | General Anthony Wayne; known as "Mad Anthony"; US Representatives; hero of the Revolutionary and Northwest Indian Wars | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Webster County | Preston | 1853 | Stewart | Daniel Webster (1782�1852), United States Secretary of State, supported Clay's Compromise of 1850 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Wheeler County | Alamo | 1912 | Montgomery | General Joseph Wheeler, US Representative; hero of the Civil War and the Spanish�American War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
White County | Cleveland | 1857 | Habersham | David T White or Colonel John White, hero of the Revolutionary War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Whitfield County | Dalton | 1851 | Murray | George Whitefield, famous preacher who established Bethesda Orphanage near Savannah | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Wilcox County | Abbeville | 1857 | Dooly, Irwin and Pulaski | General Mark Wilcox, a famous soldier and legislator from Telfair County | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Wilkes County | Washington | 1777 | Cherokee and Creek Cessations of 1773 | John Wilkes, distinguished British Member of Parliament who sympathized with the cause of American independence | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Wilkinson County | Irwinton | 1803 | Creek Cessations of 1802 and 1805 | General James Wilkinson, hero of the Revolution and the War of 1812 | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List | |
Worth County | Sylvester | 1853 | Dooly and Irwin | General William J Worth, hero of the Mexican-American War | ADOPTABLE | Mailing List |
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