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Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 87,268. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 105,453 [1]. The county seat is Carrollton, Georgia6. Carroll County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, though few locals would consider this to be true except for the media market, and for telephone area code and metro area toll-free dialing.
History
The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta, and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. This land was the last remaining portion of the Creek's Georgia territory, and was ceded by William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creeks or White Sticks. This cession resulted in his murder at McIntosh Reserve near present day Whitesburg by fellow Creeks from northern Alabama called Red Sticks or Upper Creeks. The counties' boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, but they were not named until December 14 of 1826. Carroll County was named for Charles Carroll of Maryland, at that time the last surviving signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence when the county was created in 1826. Carrollton, the county seat, was also named for this reason. The county originally extended from the Chattahoochee River to the Alabama state line on the East and West with the northern boundary just north of present day I-20 with the Cherokees. This land was carved up over time to become Carroll, Douglas, Heard, parts of Haralson and Troup counties. A portion that became Douglas was once Campbell County which no longer exists (divided between Douglas and Fulton counties. Because of the small slave population the county was known as the Free State of Carroll in the 1850s. Even before the cession of the territory some white settlers were in the northern part of the county in the Villa Rica area. During the American Civil War, the county provided the Bowdon Volunteers and the Carroll Boys, which were a part of Cobb's Legion. In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast and spawned numerous tornadoes throughout the county that shredded dozens of mobile homes and killed several. Timeline
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