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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]
Oran, a post-hamlet of
Murray county, is four miles northeast of Spring
Place. Dalton is the most convenient railroad
station.
[Source: Georgia
Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and Persons, Vol 2, Publ 1906.
Transcribed by Kristen
Bisanz]
Templegrove, a
post-hamlet in the northern part of Murray
county, is about twelve miles east of Cohutta,
which is the nearest railroad town.
Comprising Sketches of
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form Transcribed
by Kristen Bisanz
Sumach, a post-village
of Murray county, is on a branch of the
Oostanaula river, about ten miles north of
Springplace. The nearest railroad station is
Varnell's ten miles west.
Comprising Sketches of
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form Transcribed
by Kristen Bisanz
Springplace, once a
missionary station amongst the Cherokees, and
now the county seat of Murray county, was
incorporated by act of the legislature in 1885.
When the projected railroad from Dalton, Ga., to
Murphy, N. C., is built, it ought to give to
Spring place the impetus that has built up
so many towns in Georgia. Its location is
attractive, being in the midst of charming
scenery, with the Cohutta mountains in full
view, and within ten miles of the Cohutta
Springs, whose waters are said to possess' great
medicinal values. It has a handsome court house,
good schools and churches, a money order
postoffice with rural free delivery and stores
well stocked for the country trade. The
population of Springplace according to the
census of 1900 was 213. There was some
skirmishing here on Feb. 27, 1864, as Thomas was
advancing against the Confederate position at
Dallas. Other skirmishes occurred near the same
place during the first week of the following
April.
Comprising Sketches of
Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form Transcribed
by Kristen
Bisanz
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