- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Charlton County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-04-29
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Charlton County, 30.78172, -82.13769
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Charlton County, Georgia. Charlton County, in southeast Georgia, is the state's 111th county. Comprising 781 square miles, the county borders Florida and includes most of the Okefenokee Swamp. It was carved from a part of Camden County and officially recognized by the state legislature in 1854. Portions of Ware County were added to Charlton in 1855. Charlton County was named for Robert Milledge Charlton, a nineteenth-century jurist, U.S. senator, and mayor of Savannah. The current courthouse was built in 1928 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The area was originally inhabited by Creek Indians, and the first white settlers came from neighboring counties in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/charlton-county/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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