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Mcintosh County, Georgia

Towns, Hamlets and Villages

McIntosh County was laid off from Liberty in 1793 and was named to commemorate the services of the McIntosh family, who had been prominent in the history of Georgia from the founding of the colony.  It lies in the southeastern part of the state, and is bounded on the north by Liberty county, on the east by the Atlantic ocean, on the south by Glynn and Wayne counties and on the west by Liberty.  The Altamaha and the South Newport rivers form much of the boundary of the county, while the islands of Sapelo, Wolf, Doboy, Hinds, Blackbeard, Broughton, Butner’s, Wright’s and Patterson’s skirt the coast, being separated from the mainland and from each other by inlets.  These islands are much resorted to by hunters and fishermen.  Along the Altamaha rice and sugar-can are the principal productions. Corn, oats, Irish and sweet potatoes and sea-island cotton are raised in other parts of the county.  There are still many forests and lumber, rosin and turpentine are exported in large quantities from Darien, the county seat.  The Darien & Western and the Seaboard Air Line railroads, the Altamaha river and the Atlantic ocean give exceptionally fine facilities for transportation.  In 1900, Darien shipped 1,000 barrels of rosin.  The population in that year was 6,537, an increase of 67 in ten years.  Mrs. Ann McIntosh died at Cedar Point, McIntosh county, in 1833.  Her parents came to this country with Oglethorpe.  She was born at Darien, where Oglethorpe had a military post, and lived for one hundred years within ten miles of the place.
[Source: Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,  Vol 2, Publ 1906. Transcribed by Renae Donaldson]