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Murray County, Georgia
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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 have any information regarding your ancestors, please e-mail me and I will get it on this site as soon as possible.
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Last Update: 30 April 2008
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]
Cities and towns
Chatsworth
Eton
Cisco (Unincorporated)
Tenga
Crandall
Spring Place (Historical Township)
Ramhurst (Unincorporated)
Carters (Unincorporated)
Ball Ground (Unincorporated)
Bloodtown (Unincorporated)
Sumac (Unincorporated)
Fashion (Unincorporated)
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