Wilkinson County- GHM 158-7 Wilkinson CO
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N 32° 48.693 W 083° 10.368
17S E 296575 N 3632486
Located at the Wilkinson County Courthouse, Irwinton, Ga.
Waymark Code: WM48W2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/22/2008
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WILKINSON COUNTY
This County was created by Acts of the legislature
May 11, 1803 and Dec. 7, 1805.
It is
named for James Wilkinson, Revolutionary General,
and formed from part of the lands acquired
from the Creeks by the Treaty of
Fort Wilkinson (on the Oconee)
at which the General was a U.S. Commissioner.
Irwinton, named for Gov. Jared Irwin,
is located on the site of
an English trading post that existed
prior to 1715.
Among the first County Officers were:
Sheriff Edmund Hogan; Clerk of Superior Court
Archibald McIntire; Clerk of Inferior Court
William Brown; Ordinary Drury Gilbert;
Tax Receiver Arthur Burney;
Tax Collector William O'Neal;
Coroner Charles Ray
and Surveyor Britton McCullers.p
158-7 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
(Note: State records indicate that this is marker 158-2.
However, the marker carries the number 158-7.)