Murray County, Georgia                                               A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group "Let The Journey Begin..." Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Murray County, Georgia. My name is Leslie Riney and I am your host for Murray County. I am a direct descendant of Joseph Rufus Williams, the son of William and Sarah A. (Scott) Williams who lived in Murray County around 1856. As I am just beginning to host this site in early 2008, please check back often for updates. I will be adding information as quickly as I can get it uploaded. If you are looking for someone in particular, email me and there's a high probability that I can find it and post it if you provide me with enough information.  If you have any information regarding your ancestors, please e-mail me and I will get it on this site as soon as possible. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists.   Search this site powered by FreeFind Any data we come across will be added to this site. We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you. The county seat is Chatsworth, Georgia In December, 1832 the Georgia General Assembly designated the extreme northwestern corner of the state as Murray County. Formerly part of Cherokee County, the area was named for a distinguished Georgia statesman from Lincoln County, Mr. Thomas W. Murray, a former speaker of the Georgia House. Within a short time the legislature found the county was too large to administer properly as the population grew, for the county then included what is now Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Gordon and parts of Bartow and Chatooga Counties, so further division became necessary. Within two decades, Murray County came to be 342 square miles (886 km²) of land with Spring Place as its county seat. The area was in the heart of the Cherokee Nation at the time the boundary lines were drawn through the territory. Not until after the Cherokees were removed in 1838-39 did white settlers enter the county in large numbers. Spring Place had been established in 1801 as a Moravian mission to the Cherokee and had been a post office since 1810 - the second oldest in North Georgia A county-wide referendum was held in 1912, which resulted in Chatsworth being named as the seat of local government, where it remains to present day [source: wikipedia.org] Chatsworth  c. 1936 image of Courthouse Vann House & James Vann Eton Cisco (unincorporated) Tenga Crandall Spring Place (historical township) Ramhurst (unincorporated) Mt. 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