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| The land that would form Effingham
County was ceded to the English by the Creeks in the Treaty of
Savannah on May 21, 1733, confirmed and expanded by agreements
of 1735 and 1736. By an act of March 15, 1758, the colonial legislature
created seven parishes. The area of present-day Effingham County
primarily fell in St. Matthews Parish, which stretched along
the Savannah River north of Savannah. With the outbreak of the
American Revolution, Whig forces took control of government in
Georgia. On Feb. 5, 1777, they adopted the state's first constitution
-- the Constitution of 1777. Art. IV of that document transformed
the existing colonial parishes into seven counties, with Indian
ceded lands forming an eighth county. Effingham County consisted
of all of Saint Matthew Parish and that part of Saint Philip
Parish north of the Canoochee River (see
map). In 1793, the legislature created Screven County from
portions of Effingham and Burke counties. Land from Effingham
County also was used to enlarge Bryan County (1794) and Chatham
County (1850). |
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Useful Census
Links:
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Historical
Census Data Browser
Office of Planning and Budget Census Data Program
Georgia 2000 Information
System (University of Georgia ITOS)
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Census |
Pop. |
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2000 |
37,535 |
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1990 |
25,687 |
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1980 |
18,327 |
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1970 |
13,632 |
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1960 |
10,144 |
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1950 |
9,133 |
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1940 |
9,646 |
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1930 |
10,164 |
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1920 |
9,985 |
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1910 |
9,971 |
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1900 |
8,334 |
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1890 |
5,599 |
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1880 |
5,979 |
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1870 |
4,214 |
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1860 |
4,755 |
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1850 |
3,864 |
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1840 |
3,075 |
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1830 |
2,924 |
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1820 |
3,018 |
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1810 |
2,586 |
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1800 |
2,072 |
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1790 |
2,424 |
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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