Fayette County Georgia Genealogy and History

FAYETTE COUNTY.
This county is a portion of the territory acquired by the United States for the use of the State of Georgia, from the Creek Indians, by a treaty made at the Indian Springs. Organized in 1821. Named after the Marquis De La Fayette. Length, 27 m.; breadth, 18 m.; area square miles, 486.

The Flint River passes along the eastern part of the county.

Fayetteville is the county town, 107 miles from Milledgeville.

Jonesborough is a thriving place, situated on the Macon and Western Railroad.

Rough and Ready, and Fairburne, are small places.

The face of the country is level. The lands are of the gray quality, adapted to cotton, corn, &c.

The climate is healthy. We insert a few cases of longevity. Mr. Waldroup died at 104; Mr. Graves, over 80; Wm. Gay, over 80; Mr. Hanes, 87 ; Mr. Grey, 80; John Fuller, 96; Mr. Moses, 80; Mrs. Atkinson, 80; E. Knowles, 80; Wm. Powell, 90; John Cooke, 95; Wm. Abercrombie, 85; Mr. S. Speights, 85.

General David Dickson died in this county in 1830, aged 79 years. He joined the standard of American Independence in February, 1775, at the Snow Camps, on Reedy River, at the taking of Colonel Cunningham and his Tories. In 1776, he commanded a volunteer company, under Gen. Williamson, in the Cherokee Nation, against the Cherokees and Tories. In 1777, he brought a company of minute-men to Georgia, and was stationed on the frontiers. In 1778, he and his company went with the American army to take St. Augustine, and served in the artillery. The taking of St. Augustine miscarried ; the minute-men were discharged, and he returned to South Carolina, joined the standard of Independence, and continued in the service of his country to the end of the war.

Samuel Parsons died in 1832, aged 70 years. He was a native of the State of Virginia. At the age of fifteen he entered the army of the Revolution, was engaged in the battle of Guilford Courthouse, at the siege of Little York, and witnessed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

Extract from the Census of 1850.—Dwellings, 1,196; families, 1,206; white males, 3,450; white females, 3,290; free coloured males, 3; 1 free coloured female. Total free population, 6,744; slaves, 1,965. Deaths, 99. Farms, 818; manufacturing establishments, 6. Value of real estate, $2,185,835 ; value of personal estate, $1,162,169.

The first Superior Court for this county was held on the 22d of April, 1824. His Honor Eli Shorter, Judge.

"Historical Collections Of Georgia", by George White, 1855
Transcribed and Submitted by Brenda Wiesner

Towns, Hamlets and Villages

Fayette County was laid out in 1821 from territory acquired from the Creek Indians by the treaty of Indian Springs. It is in the central part of the state and is bounded on the north by Campbell county, on the east by Clayton, on the southeast by Spaulding and on the west by Coweta. The Flint river forms the greater part of the eastern boundary. The southern railroad passes through the county from north to south and a branch of the Central of Georgia crosses the southern part. Along these lines are several towns, viz: Camp Creek, Kenwood, Fayetteville, Inman and Woolsey, on the Southern, and Brooks Station on the Central. Fayetteville is the county seat. The principal occupation is farming, the crops consisting of cotton, corn, wheat, peas, sorghym, potatoes and sugar-cane. Peaches and apples do well and some attention is given to dairy farming, sheep and poultry raising. In 1900 the county reported 43 public schools in successful operation, with an attendance of 865 in the white and 300 in the colored schools. The population at that time was 10,114, an increase of 1,386 within ten years.
[Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]

Fayetteville, the county seat of Fayette county, is on the Southern railway, was incorporated in 1823, and its charter was amended in 1888. It has a money order postoffice with rural free delivery routes, express and telegraph offices, a court house worth $15,000 and over a dozen stores. There is a cotton seed oil mill in operation and a guano factory in process of erection. According to the census of 1900 the Fayetteville district contained 2,265 inhabitants, of whom 430 lived in the town.
[Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]

Flat Creek, a little village of Fayette county, is about ten miles southwest of Fayetteville, During the military operations about Atlanta in the summer and fall of 1864 several skirmishes occurred in his vicinity, especially in the federal raids on the West Point and Macon railroads.
[Source: Georgia: Sketches, Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions & People, Vol. 2, Publ. 1906 Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman]

Kenwood, a post-village of Fayette county, is a station on the Southern railway, about five miles north of Fayetteville.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

Lowry, a post-village of Fayette county, is on the Southern railway, about ten miles south of Fayettesville.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)

Milners Store, a post-hamlet in the northern part of Fayette county, is about two miles northwest of Kenwood, which is the most convenient railroad station.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister]