Gilmer County, Georgia
December 26, 1831 |
The original Cherokee County created
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Lumpkin County, Georgia |
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Gilmer County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Bartow County, Georgia |
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Cass County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Original Cherokee County |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
November 24, 1832 |
Start of the sixth land lottery. Georgia did not own the land it was giving to settlers
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
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Original Cherokee County |
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Gilmer County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Cass County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
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Walker County, Georgia |
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Union County, Georgia |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Murray County, Georgia |
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Lumpkin County, Georgia |
December 3, 1832 |
Gilmer County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Original Cherokee County |
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Gilmer County, Georgia |
April 11, 1959 |
Springer Mountain, between Fannin County and Gilmer County, becomes the start of the Appalachian Trail, replacing Oglethorpe Mountain (Pickens County). The change reduced the length of the Appalachian Trail by about 15 miles |
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Gilmer County, Georgia |
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Pickens County, Georgia |
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Fannin County, Georgia |
Name derivation:Named in honor of Governor George Rockingham Gilmer, whose long service to the state included building Fort Standing Peachtree on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, which he used as a based camp to attack Creek settlements further west. It was his defience of federal law as governor, establishing the Sixth Land Lottery and the Gold Lottery, dividing up a Cherokee Nation that had not ceded the land, that made him wildly popular throughout the state of Georgia. Following the naming of the county in his honor, he was re-elected governor and was serving in that position during the Trail of Tears. Acquisition: Treaty of New Echota (1835) Taken from: Original county Counties created from:Cities: Ellijay (county seat) Web sites:National Register of Historic Places in Gilmer County, GeorgiaGilmer County, Georgia, links
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