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Early Walker County papers

Deeds for land in Cherokee County from 1833 to 1843

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1833/1843

Subject
Creek Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Creek Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Indian land transfers
Real property
Land use

Location
United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, 34.24393, -84.4762

Medium
land grants
legal documents
maps
property registers
records (documents)
surveys (documents)

Type
Still Image, Text

Description
The selected documents are land grants, that include maps and survey reports, for a plots in Cherokee County, Georgia, granted between 1833 and 1835 and in 1843 and in 1845. The land was obtained by the state of Georgia from the Creek and Cherokee Nations in unnamed treaties and distributed by acts passed in the Georgia Assembly on December 21, 1830, and on December 22, 1831. The majority of plots was surveyed in 1832. 832 miles of Cherokee County became Murray County in December 1831. In 1833, a portion of this county became Walker County., The addition of documents from the LaFayette-Walker County Library in 2006 is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Cherokee Regional Library System and the Walker County Historical Society as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Metadata URL
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/nativeamerican/institution/lafayettewalker

Language
eng

Original Collection
Early Walker County Papers, LaFayette-Walker County Library, LaFayette, Ga.

Holding Institution
LaFayette-Walker County Library

Rights