Place:Carroll, Georgia, United States

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Place Information
Name
Carroll
Alternate names
Carroll     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Type
County
Coordinates
33.583°N 85.05°W
Located in
Georgia, United States     (1826 - )
See also
Bartow, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Cobb, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Douglas, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Floyd, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Haralson, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Heard, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Paulding, Georgia, United States     (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
Contained Places

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Abilene
Banning Mills
Banning
Bowdon Junction
Bowdon
Briarwood Estates
Buck Creek
Bucktown
Burwell
Byers Crossroads
Carrollton
Castlegate East
Cedar Valley
Cedarwood
Center Point
Chapel Heights Estates
Chestnut Hill
Clem
Colonial Estates
Cross Plains
Curtis
Dingler Crossroads
Dot
Double Branches
Driskolls
Elizabeth Village Moblie Home Park
Fairlawn Estates
Farmers High
Five Points
Greene Valley Estates
Greenwood Estates
Hart Town
Henley
Hickory Heights
Hickory Level
High Point
Hodge
Holly Heights
Ithaca
Jake
Joel
Jonesville
Kansas
Knob Hill
Lamplighter Square
Land-O-Plenty
Leisure Heights
Lowell
Luckie
Mabry
Miller Academy
Mount Zion
Oak Grove
Oak Mountain
Old Villa Rica
Paradise Estates
Pine Ridge Estates
Plowshare
Riverbend
Rolling View Estates
Roopville
Sand Hill
Shady Grove
South Gate
Star Point
Stoney Point
Temple
Tyus
Veal
Victory
Villa Rica
Whitesburg
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

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.

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History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

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

Date Event Source
1826 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1827 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1827 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1827 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1827 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1830 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1880 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1919 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1830 3,419
1840 5,252
1850 9,357
1860 11,991
1870 11,782
1880 16,901
1890 22,301
1900 26,576
1910 30,855
1920 34,752
1930 34,272
1940 34,156
1950 34,112
1960 36,451
1970 45,404
1980 56,346
1990 71,422

Research Tips

External links

www.rootsweb.com/~gacarrol/


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Carroll County, Georgia. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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