- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Wayne County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-10-28
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Wayne County, 31.55143, -81.91676
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Wayne County, Georgia. Georgia's twenty-seventh county, Wayne County was created in 1803 in the southeast part of the state on land acquired from the Creek Indians, who ceded the land to Georgia in the Treaty of Fort Wilkinson (1802). The 645-square-mile county is named after "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a general in the Revolutionary War (1775-83).
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/wayne-county/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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