Jackson County - GHM 078-1
N 34° 07.111 W 083° 34.464
17S E 262560 N 3778290
a brief timeline of the county, how it was named, and some of the first officials names.
Waymark Code: WM2AF
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2005
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This County, created by Act of the Legislature February 11, 1796, is named for James Jackson who later became Governor in 1788-1801. A soldier of the Revolution he served in Congress 1789-91 and in the Senate 1793-95 and 1801-06. He strongly opposed the Yazoo fraud, and died in 1806. Here in Jefferson ether was first used as an anaesthetic in surgery by Dr. Crawford W. Long on March 30, 1842. Among the first County Officers were: Sherriff John Hart, Clerk of Superior Court George Taylor, Clerk of Inferior Court Daniel W. Easley, Coroner Isham Williams and Surveyor James Harper.
