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Liberty
County,
Georgia
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County, Georgia.
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Liberty County,
located on the Georgia coast, was one of the seven Georgia counties
created from the original colonial parishes on February 5, 1777. The
Guale Indians inhabited that area from prehistoric times, and in the
eighteenth century the tribe became a part of the Muskogee or Creek
Confederation. The Spanish placed a mission on St. Catherines Island in
the late sixteenth century among the Guale Indians. In the early 1750s
English settlers, including a group of Congregationalists from
Dorchester, South Carolina, located in the area between the Medway and
Newport rivers.
Shortly before the American Revolution (1775-83), a number of people
who later became prominent in the new state and republic settled there,
including Nathan Brownson, Mark Carr, James Dunwoody, John Elliott Sr.,
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Lachlan McIntosh, James Screven, and
Daniel Stewart. In the 1770s William Bartram traveled through the area
during his famous expedition.
In 1775 St. John's Parish, one of three parishes that would eventually
make up Liberty County, was the first area in Georgia to send a
representative to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In that
year the citizens of St. John's Parish gathered in the Congregational
Church in Midway, where they elected Lyman Hall to represent them in
the Continental Congress. They sent several wagonloads of rice with him
to feed the Continental troops surrounding Boston. Because St. John's
Parish was the first in Georgia to vote for liberty, the new county
created from this parish was given the name Liberty.
The county seat is Hinesville, Georgia
Cities and towns
Allenhurst -- Flemington -- Fort
Stewart -- Gumbranch -- Hinesville
Midway -- Riceboro -- Walthourville
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