FIRST -- White Settlement in Former Creek Lands in GA, Preston GA
N 32° 03.967 W 084° 32.247
16S E 732465 N 3550417
Preston GA, then known as Lannahassee, the first white settlement in Georgia's Creek cession lands
Waymark Code: WMWKT0
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2017
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This area of Georgia was opened to white settlement after the Creek Indians moved west to avoid encroaching whites.
The marker reads as follows:
"Lannahassee
Lannahassee, near the Indian village by that name on Lannahassee Creek, was the first white settlement (1836) after the Creek Indians left the area to migrate westward. About 1851 the town moved a mile or two away and became McIntosh. When the County of Kinchafoonee, later Webster, was created in 1853, the name of the settlement was changed to Preston and it became the county seat. The Creek Indians lived in this section from about 1700 until their migration after the treaty at Indian Springs."
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1836
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