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Rockdale County, Georgia
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website
for Rockdale County, Georgia.
This County is available for adoption.
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Rockdale County was created on October 18, 1870, by act of the Georgia
General Assembly and received its name from Rockdale Baptist Church (est. 1846), which was named after the granite
strata that rests under the county's red clay top soil. A bill introduced by John F. Hardin and John Harris carved
Rockdale out of the northern portion of Newton County; parts of Rockdale County also came from neighboring Henry,
Walton, Gwinnett, and DeKalb counties. Conyers, Rockdale's only incorporated town and urban center, became the
county seat.
Prior to Rockdale becoming a county, the land had been inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee; the boundary between
the two native nations, the Hightower Trail, ran directly through area.
The county seat is Conyers, Georgia
Cities and towns
Conyers -- Ebenezer (unincorporated) -- Honey Creek (unincorporated)
Lakeview Estates (unincorporated) -- Magnet (unincorporated) --
Milstead (unincorporated) -- Pleasant Hill (unincorporated)
Princeton (unincorporated) -- Salem (unincorporated) -- Smyrna (unincorporated)
Union Grove (unincorporated) -- Zingara (unincorporated) --
Oak Hill (unincorporated)
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