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Worth County, Georgia
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website
for Worth County, Georgia.
This County is available for adoption.
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placing it online for the free use of all researchers.
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Worth County was created from Dooly and Irwin counties on December 20, 1853, by an
act of the Georgia General Assembly, becoming Georgia's 106th county. It was named for Major General William J.
Worth of New York.
In 1905, portions of Worth County were used to create Tift and Turner counties
The county is called the "Peanut Capital" because of its massive peanut industry.
Worth County, created in 1853 and containing more than 500 square miles, was dotted with many small communities
and towns. Travel was difficult and roads had to be backed out of the timbered lands. The communties grew around
the stagecoach road, turpentine stills, sawmills, gristmills, waterways, and railroads. A couple of stores and
businesses, a post office, a church, and a school would be built and a certain level of self sufficiency would
he obtained. As travel became less arduous, some of these communities faded away. Some of the old names are Att,
Artesta, Egypt.
Pinder Town, Utica, Dong, Willingham, Gintown, and Alford's Switch.
These may be a distant memory now or perhaps a road sign.
Cities and towns
Oakfield -- Poulan -- Sumner -- Sylvester (county seat) -- Warwick
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Online Data
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Biographies
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Births
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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church Histories/Records
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County Records
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Court Records
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Death
Records
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Family Bibles
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History
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Marriages
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Military
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Newspaper Data
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Obituaries
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Surnames
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Wills/Legal Records
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Website Updates:
Oct 2009: Obits for BRANCH, BURCH, CONLEY, HALL, JACKSON, KNIGHT, POPE, SIMS, HANES; list of cemeteries; 1919 and
1920 Death Indexes; Crime News Gleanings; Bethel Cemetery burials |
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