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Ware County, Georgia
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website
for Ware County, Georgia.
This County is available for adoption.
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The county seat is Waycross, Georgia. By geographic area, Ware County is the largest Georgia county.
The county is named for Nicholas Ware - the mayor of Augusta, Georgia from (1819-1821) and a United States Senator
who represented Georgia from 1821 until his death in 1824.
Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15th,1824 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly
from land that was originally part of Appling county.
Several counties were later created from parts of the original Ware County borders:
Bacon County
(from portions of Appling,
Pierce, and Ware Counties in 1917)
Clinch County
(from portions of Lowndes
and Ware Counties in 1850)
Coffee County
(from portions of Clinch , Irwin,
Telfair, and
Ware Counties in 1854)
Pierce County
(from portions of Appling and Ware Counties in 1857)
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