Butts County-GHM 018-1-Butts County
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N 33° 17.663 W 083° 58.028
17S E 223697 N 3687852
Located on Butts County Courthouse Lawn in Jackson, GA
Waymark Code: WM2DX5
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2007
Views: 24
Text:
BUTTS COUNTY
This County, created by Act of the Legislature
December 24, 1825, is named for Capt. Sam
Butts killed in the Indian War of 1814 at
the Battle of Chalibbee. At Indian Springs,
now a State Park, were signed the Treaties
with the Creeks giving Georgia respectively
all lands between the Flint and Ocmulgee
Rivers north to the Chattahoochee, and all
the remaining Indian lands in the state.
Among the first County Officers were: Sheriff
Isaac Nolen, Clerk of Superior Court Abel
L. Robinson, Clerk of Inferior Court Thomas
Thornton, Coroner Sm. B. Smith and Surveyor
Willie Terrell.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 018-1
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Not listed
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