Hart County - GHM 073-4 - Hart County
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N 34° 21.165 W 082° 55.952
17S E 322263 N 3802961
Located in front of the entrance to the Hart County Courthouse.
Waymark Code: WM4M46
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2008
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Hart County
Hart County was created by the Legislature on Dec. 7, 1853 out of portions of Franklin and Elbert counties. It is the only county in Georgia named for a woman -- Nancy Hart.
Nancy Hart and her husband, Benjamin Hart, obtained a 400 acre grant 25 miles S.E. from Hartwell in Colonial days and erected a log cabin home. During the Revolution War six Tories forced their way into the Hart home and demanded that Nancy cook a meal for them. She started cooking an old turkey, meanwhile sending her daughter to the spring to blow a conch shell for help. Detected slipping the third tory rifle through a crack in the wall, Nancy killed one of the Tories and wounded another. Hart and several neighbors, coming to her rescue, wanted to shoot the five surviving Tories but Nancy insisted that they be hanged, and they were. Tradition has it that Nancy Hart served as a spy for Gen. Elijah Clarke, sometimes disguised as a man. The Indians respectfully called Nancy Hart 'War Woman,' giving that name to a creek adjacent to her cabin, which is memorialized in a State Park on State Highway Route 17.
Hart County's first officers elected in Feb. 1854 were Inferior Court Justices Henry F. Chandler, Micajah Carter, Clayton S. Webb, Daniel M. Johnson, James V. Richardson; Inferior Court Clerk Frederic C. Stephenson. Ordinary James T. Jones. Superior Court Clerk Burrell Mitchell. Sheriff William Myers. Tax Receiver W.C. Davis. Tax Collector Richard Shirley. Surveyor John A. Cameron. Cornoer Richmond Skelton and Treasurer Samuel White.
GHM 073-4 Georgia Historical Commission 1955
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 073-4
Date: 1955
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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