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Carroll
County,
Georgia
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History
The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta, and Carroll counties was
ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. This
land was the last remaining portion of the Creek's Georgia territory,
and was ceded by William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creeks or White
Sticks. This cession resulted in his murder at McIntosh Reserve near
present day Whitesburg by fellow Creeks from northern Alabama called
Red Sticks or Upper Creeks.
The county's boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on
June 9, but they were not named until December 14 of 1826. Carroll
County was named for Charles Carroll of Maryland, at that time the last
surviving signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence when the
county was created in 1826. Carrollton, the county seat, was also named
for this reason.
The county originally extended from the Chattahoochee River to the
Alabama state line on the East and West with the northern boundary just
north of present day I-20 with the Cherokees. This land was carved up
over time to become Carroll, Douglas, Heard, parts of Haralson and
Troup counties. A portion that became Douglas was once Campbell County
which no longer exists (divided between Douglas and Fulton counties).
Even before the cession of the territory some white settlers were in
the northern part of the county in the Villa Rica area.
Because of the small slave population the county was known as the Free
State of Carroll in the 1850s. During the American Civil War, the
county provided the Bowdon Volunteers and the Carroll Boys, which were
a part of Cobb's Legion.
The county seat is Carrollton, Georgia
Cities
and
towns
Bowdon -- Bremen -- Carrollton -- Mount Zion
Roopville -- Temple -- Villa Rica -- Whitesburg
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Website
Updates:
Oct
2009:
Biography
of Capt. Wm MCINTOSH; July 2010 Obits, News,
Marriage Notices 2011; 1860, and 1870 Mortality Census, Biographies,
Deaths, List of Marriage 1834 to 1839, Villages- History-Bios- Korea
War causalities, Vietnam War causalities, all War causalities
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Adjacent Counties
Paulding County, Georgia - north
Douglas County, Georgia - east
Fulton County, Georgia - east
Coweta County, Georgia - southeast
Heard County, Georgia - south
Randolph County, Alabama - southwest
Cleburne County, Alabama - west
Haralson County, Georgia - northwest
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