- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Heard County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-05-26
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Heard County, 33.29703, -85.12827
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Heard County, Georgia. Heard County, in west central Georgia on the border with Alabama, is the state's seventy-seventh county. Created in 1830 from 301 square miles of Carroll, Coweta, and Troup counties, it was named for Stephen Heard, an influential patriot of the American Revolution (1775-83), a planter, and a governor of Georgia from 1780 to 1781. The land now encompassed by Heard County was originally held by Creek Indians, who lost it at the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825. The first white inhabitants arrived soon after the signing of the treaty and acquired most of their property by state-run land lotteries. Most of the new settlers came from other parts of Georgia in the search for better land.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/heard-county/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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