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Jackson
County,
Georgia
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Trails Group
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Jackson
County, Georgia.
This County is available for adoption.
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On February 11, 1796, Jackson
County was split off from part of Franklin County, Georgia. The new
county was named in honor of Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel,
Congressman, Senator and Governor James Jackson. The county originally
covered an area of approximately 1,800 sq miles, with Clarkesboro as
its first county seat.
In 1801, the Georgia General Assembly granted 40,000 acres of land in
Jackson County for a state college. Franklin College (now University of
Georgia) began classes the same year, and the city of Athens was
developed around the school. Also the same year, a new county was
developed around the new college town, and Jackson lost territory to
the new Clarke. The county seat was moved to an old Indian village
called Thomocoggan, a location with ample water supply from Curry Creek
and four large springs. In 1804, the city was renamed Jefferson, after
Thomas Jefferson.
Jackson lost more territory in 1811 in the creation of Madison County,
in 1818 in the creation of Walton, Gwinnett, and Hall counties, in 1858
in the creation of Banks County, and in 1914 in the creation of Barrow
County.
The first county courthouse, a log and wooden frame building with an
attached jail, was built on south side of the public square; a second,
larger, two-story brick courthouse with a separate jailhouse was built
in 1817. In 1880, a third was built on a hill north of the square. This
courthouse was the oldest continuously operating courthouse in the
United States until 2004, when the current courthouse was constructed
north of Jefferson. (source:
Wikipedia.org)
Cities and towns
Incorporated
Arcade
Braselton
Commerce (formerly Harmony Grove)
Hoschton
Jefferson
Maysville
Nicholson (formerly Cooper)
Pendergrass
Talmo
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Unincorporated
communities
Apple Valley
Attica
Brockton
Center (incorporated until 1999)
Clarksboro
Constantine
Dry Pond
Ednaville
Fairview
Grove Level
Holders
Holly Springs
Red Stone
Sells
Stoneham
Thompsons Mills
Thurmack
Thyatira
Wilsons Church
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