FORSYTH COUNTY.
Laid out from Cherokee in 1832; named after the Hon. John Forsyth.
The lands on the rivers and creeks are fertile.
The climate is healthy.

Cumming, named after Colonel William Gumming, is the county town, 145 miles from Milledgeville ; it is surrounded by beautiful scenery.

The public places are Big Creek, Hartford, High Tower, Vickery's Creek, and W'arsaw.

This section lies in the gold region. The mineral resources are supposed to be great.

The principal streams are the Chattahoochee and Etowah. There are several creeks, such as Vickery's, Dick's, John's, &c.

According to the census of 1850, there were in this county—Dwellings, 1,334; families, 1,334; white males, 3,950; white females, 3,862 ; free coloured males, 6; free coloured females, 5. Total free population, 7,823. Slaves, 1,027. Deaths, 39. Farms, 765 ; manufacturing establishments, 8. Value of real estate, 8672,978; value of personal estate, $700,426.

The first persons who made settlements in this county were, J. Scudder, L. Blackburn, John Jolly, W. W. Vaughan, A. Cameron, Wm. Rogers, John Rogers, Noah Strong, L. Hudson, B. Allen, W. H. Bacon, L. D. Harris, E. Harris, Geo. Kellogg, Mr. Julian, Alfred Hudson, W. G. Fields.

On Mr. Rogers's plantation, twelve miles south of Gumming, on the road to Lawrenceville, are several small mounds. On the road from Canton to Dahlonega, ten miles northwest from Gumming, is a very remarkable rock, an unhewn mass of granite, eight and a half feet long, and two and a half feet wide, three-sided, with irregular converging points, upon which are numerous characters, seventeen of them varying in shape. The largest circles are eight inches in diameter. From its appearance, it must have been wrought at a very remote period. The designs are very regular, and it is probable that they were executed by the same race of people who constructed the mounds in this and other sections of the State.

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

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