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Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population in 2000 was 41,589. The county seat is Jefferson, Georgia. On February
11, 1796, Jackson County was split off from part of Franklin
County, Georgia. The new county was named in honor of
Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel, Congressman, Senator and Governor James
Jackson. The county
originally covered an area of approximately 1,800 sq mi (4,662 km˛),
with Clarkesboro as its first county seat. In 1801, the
Georgia
General Assembly
granted 40,000 acres (160 km˛) of land in Jackson County for a state college.
Franklin College (now University
of Georgia) began
classes the same year, and the city of Athens was developed around the school. Also
the same year, a new county was developed around the new college town, and
Jackson lost territory to the new Clarke. The county seat was moved to an old
Indian village called Thomocoggan, a location with
ample water supply from Curry Creek and four large springs. In 1804, the city
was renamed Jefferson, after Thomas Jefferson. Jackson lost
more territory in 1811 in the creation of Madison
County, in 1818 in the
creation of Walton, Gwinnett, and Hall counties, in 1858 in the creation of Banks
County, and in 1914 in
the creation of Barrow
County. The first county courthouse, a log and
wooden frame building with an attached jail, was built on south side of the
public square; a second, larger, two-story brick courthouse with a separate
jailhouse was built in 1817. In 1880, a third was built on a hill north of
the square. This courthouse was the oldest continuously operating courthouse
in the United States until 2004, when the current courthouse was constructed
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Jackson County Clerk of Superior Court
has Court
Records from 1796 and Land
Records from 1796 and is located at 85
Washington St., P.O. Box 7, JEFFERSON, GA 30549; Phone: (706) 367-6360, Fax:
(706) 367-2468. Jackson County Clerk of Probate Court
has Marriage Records from 1805 ,
Probate
Records from 1796 and is located at
Courthouse, 85 Washington Street, Jefferson, GA 30549-1056; 706-367-6366/ FAX
367-2468. Jackson
County Health Department has Birth and
Death Records since January
1919 and is located at 475 Darnell Road, Jefferson, Georgia
30549; (706) 367-5204, fax: (706) 367-9023. There are a few online
databases for Court, Land and Probate Records which include: Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944;
Georgia Marriages to 1850; and Georgia Marriages, 1851-1900,
Index to Georgia Wills, Land Grants to Georgia Revolutionary
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HISTORICAL / GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY(s) |
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LIBRARIES |
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Braselton Library. ( Braselton, GA United States) Commerce Public Library.
( Commerce, GA United States) Harold S. Swindle Public Library.
( Commerce, GA United States) Jefferson Public Library.
( Jefferson, GA United States) Maysville Public Library.
( Maysville, GA United States) Pendergrass Book Deposit Library.
( Pendergrass, GA United States) Talmo Book Deposit Library. ( Talmo, GA
United States) |
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The following are names of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or died
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Stephen
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different ways of using Google and the Internet to find ancestry information
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List of localities
The list below
will assist in your research regarding the matching of your ancestors birth, marriage, death dates and in what
locality of this county these events may have occurred. Source: Wikipedia The yellow star in the map at the left designates the
location of the seat of government for this county. Red
stars designate seats of surrounding counties. |
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Cities and towns: Arcade; Braselton; Commerce (formerly
Harmony Grove); Hoschton; Jefferson; Maysville; Nicholson (formerly
Cooper; Pendergrass; Talmo
Unincorporated communities: Apple Valley; Attica; Brockton;
Center (incorporated until 1999); Clarksboro;
Constantine; Dry Pond; Ednaville; Fairview;
Grove Level; Holders; Holly Springs; Red Stone; Sells;
Stoneham; Thompsons
Mills; Thurmack; Thyatira;
Wilsons Church
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GENERAL RESOURCES |
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·
Our Genealogy Reference Library (USA Locations) ·
Genealogy Forum: U.S. States ·
Family Search, IGI Batches, Localities ·
Genealogy.com: Resources by county ·
Cyndi's List - General U.S. Sites ·
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“Old” Jackson County
Courthouse, Jefferson, Georgia |
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have any photographs or other images relating to this ancestral location we would
greatly appreciate hearing from you. Use the following LINK to ascertain whether
we have any images that pertain to this location. ANCESTRAL
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