Troup County's Original Boundaries

(From an Act of June 9, 1825)

Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the territory acquired of the Creek nation of Indians by the United States for the use of Georgia, as described in the articles of a treaty entered into and concluded between the commissioners on the part of the United States and the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Creek nation of Indians, at the Indian Springs, on the twelfth day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, shall form and be divided into five sections, as follows, to wit: All that part of said territory which lies sought of a line commencing on Flint river, opposite where the line dividing the counties of Houston and Dooly strikes said river, and running due west to the Chattahoochee, shall form what shall be called section the first; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof shall be attached to the county of Dooly. All that part of said territory which lies north of the line aforesaid, and south of the line commencing on Flint river, opposite where the original line dividing the counties of Monroe and Houston, and running due west to the Chattahoochee river, shall form the second section; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof be, and the same is hereby attached to the county of Houston. And all that part of said territory which lies north of the line last aforesaid, and south of a line commencing on Flint river, where the original line dividing the counties of Henry and Monroe strikes said river, and running due west until it strikes the Chattahoochee river, shall be, and the same is hereby called the third section; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof attached to the county of Pike. And all that part of said territory which lies north of said line, and east of the Chattahoochee river, shall form the fourth section; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof shall be attached to the county of Fayette. And all that part of said territory lying west of the Chattahoochee river, and east of the dividing line between this State and the State of Alabama, shall form the fifth section; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof shall be attached to the county of Pike.

Source: Ga. Laws 1825 Extra. Session, p. 3.

(From an Act of Dec. 11, 1826)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that part of the territory lately acquired from the Creek Indians, lying between the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers, immediately above the old lines of Early county, and known as the first section, shall form one county to be called Lee.

That all that part of said territory lying between the rivers aforesaid, and known as the second section, shall form one county to be called Muscogee.

That all that part of said territory lying between said rivers, and known as the third section, shall form one county to be called Troup.

That all that part of said territory east of the Chattahoochee, and known as the fourth or upper section, shall form one county to be called Cowetaw [sic].

And that all that part of said territory lying west of the said river Chattahoochee, shall form one county to be called Carroll. . . .

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all that part of De Kalb county lying below a certain line beginning on the Chattahoochee river, at the upper corner of Fraction No. one hundred and thirteen, in the fourteenth district formerly Fayette now De Kalb, thence running along the line of lots on the range of said district to the upper corner of lot No. one hundred and twenty-four -- all that part of said district below said line to be added to and become a part of Coweta county.

Source: Ga. Laws 1826, p. 57.