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Welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Troup County, Georgia.
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 of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this
website, please contact Kim
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Troup County History
County History: On Feb. 12, 1825, a group of Creek Indians led by William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian
Springs, in which they ceded all of their remaining lands in present-day Georgia. Subsequently, in an act of June
9, 1825 the General Assembly provided that the land ceded by the treaty be divided into five numbered sections,
surveyed into districts and land lots, and distributed by land lottery. On Dec. 14, 1826, the legislature redesignated
the five land sections as the counties of Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta, and Carroll and provided for their organization
Despite the fact that the five counties were not named until Dec. 14, 1826, the date their respective boundaries
were established -- June 9, 1825 -- is generally accepted as the date of their creation. Because the five counties
were provided for in the same act, their order of creation is based on the order they were mentioned in the act
-- Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta, and Carroll. Thus, Lee was Georgia's 61st county, while Troup was 63rd. Troup
County was named for George M. Troup, who was governor of Georgia at the time of the county's creation.
On Dec. 14, 1827, the legislature formed Meriwether County from the eastern half of Troup County and Harris County
from portions of southern Troup County.
[Source: Carl Vinson Institute of Government]
Troup County Courthouse, Early 1900's
Built in 1904 and burned in 1936
Postcard courtesy of Gary Doster
Major Towns Cannonville
-- Gabbettville -- Louise -- Trimble -- Harrisonville -- Hogansville -- Wares Crossroads --
Mountville -- West Point
County Seat: LaGrange
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