Cherokee County, Georgia                         A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group This County is available for adoption. Our goal at Genealogy Trails is to help you track your ancestors through time and place by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This is a continuation of our original, Illinois Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy Project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and your data contributions. If you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and instructions on signing up. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. Any data we come across will be added to this site. We regret that we are unable to perform any personal research for you. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists Originally, Cherokee County covered everything northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River except for Carroll County. This county was created December 26, 1831 by the state legislature. It was named after the Cherokee Indians who lived in the area at that time. Several other counties were carved out of these Cherokee lands as part of the Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832. An act of the Georgia General Assembly passed on December 3rd of that year created the counties of Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Cobb, Gilmer, Murray, Cass (now Bartow), Floyd, and Paulding. The forcible removal of the Cherokee people, leading up to the notorious Trail of Tears, began in this area the year before, later accelerated by the discovery of gold in local streams. The first county seat was at Harnageville, originally called Marble Works. Since 1880 that town has been called Tate, and it is now (since 1853) in Pickens County. Part of that county was taken directly from Cherokee, the other via Gilmer (itself earlier taken from Cherokee). In 1857, part of the southeastern corner of the county was ceded by the General Assembly to form Milton County (now the city of Milton in the county of Fulton.) The county seat is Canton, Georgia. Cities and Towns Ball Ground (north-northeast) - site of old gold mines along the Etowah River Canton (central; county seat) Holly Springs (just south of Canton) Mountain Park (southeast) - mostly (about 80%) in Fulton County Nelson (far north-northeastern) - mostly (about 60%) in Pickens County Waleska (western) Woodstock (south-central) - east of Interstate 575. Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspaper Data Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: Sep 2009: County History Adjacent Counties Pickens - north Dawson - northeast Forsyth - east Fulton - southeast Cobb - south Bartow - west Gordon - northwest Visit our National Genealogy Trails Website Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.