Troup County

The city of Hogansville lies on the line between the Eleventh and Twelfth Land districts. The Calumet Mills and the mill village is in land lot No. 96, the churches and residence section in No. 97, and the southeastern part of the city in No. 128 of the Eleventh District; the central southern part in No. 9, the business section in No. 10, and the High School and Stark Mills in No. 11 of the Twelfth District; the western side of the city in Nos. 22, 23 and 24 of the Twelfth. The location is that of the intersection of … Read more

Do you know any parts or pieces of history about Troup County? Add it to the comments below! Troup County was laid out in 1826. A part was set off to Harris in 1827, and a part to Heard in 1830. It was named for Hon. George M. Troup, who was born at Macintosh’s Bluff on the Tombigbee, in what was at that time a part of Georgia, but is now within the limits of the .’State of Alabama. He attended school in McIntosh County, Georgia, -and then in Savannah, later still at a celebrated academy on Long Island, New … Read more

I’ve provided an in-depth history of Troup County, Georgia up until 1900. “Acquisition” of the Land Creek Treaty of 1825 Indian Springs Reservation Quitclaim of Chiefs Final Tragedy Troup County Boundaries Militia Districts School Districts Troup County Courts Troup County Localities Municipalities Antioch Hogansville Lagrange Mountville Vernon West Point Organization of Troup County, Georgia    

Georgia Land Lottery Papers 1805-1914 by Davis Lucas Lot 196-3 Troup Milledgeville Geo. 1 April 1839 Information having been given through the Southern Recorder (a Newspaper in the city of Milledgevillle) by the following advertisement viz. Executive Department Milledgeville, 2nd October 1838. UPON the application of THOMAS THOMPSON, POLLY THOMPSON’S illegitimate, of Columbia County, by which it appears, that Lot number one hundred and ninety-six,(196) in the (3rd) District of Troup County, was drawn by said illegitimate, and that the said lot has, through mistake, been heretofore granted to POLLY THOMPSON’S illegitimate children and that sd. Grant cannot be produced … Read more

The lot numbers followed by an asterisk (*) are fractional lots of less acreage than those unmarked; those followed by a plus (+) are not wholly in Troup County; the county from which registrations were made is the third column; names followed by an asterisk (*) are revolutionary soldiers or their widows; those followed by a plus (+) are soldiers of Indian wars or their widows. Source: History of Troup County, Atlanta, Ga.: Printed by Foote & Davies Co., c1935, pp 12-14.

GEORGE M. TROUP, for whom Troup County was named, was the son of John Troup and Catherine McIntosh, and was born on the Tombigbee River, then in the territory of Georgia, on September 8, 1780. His maternal uncle, William McIntosh, married the daughter of an Indian chief, and their eldest son was William McIntosh, the president of the Creek Nation. George M. Troup was graduated from Princeton in 1797. He was a Georgia congressman from 1807 to 1815, and in 1816 was elected as United States senator, but resigned in 1818. He was governor of Georgia from 1823 to 1827, … Read more

The lot numbers followed by an asterisk (*) are fractional lots of less acreage than those unmarked; those followed by a plus (+) are not wholly in Troup County; the county from which registrations were made is the third column; names followed by an asterisk (*) are revolutionary soldiers or their widows; those followed by a plus (+) are soldiers of Indian wars or their widows. Source: History of Troup County, Atlanta, Ga.: Printed by Foote & Davies Co., c1935, pp 14-17.

The lot numbers followed by an asterisk (*) are fractional lots of less acreage than those unmarked; those followed by a plus (+) are not wholly in Troup County; the county from which registrations were made is the third column; names followed by an asterisk (*) are revolutionary soldiers or their widows; those followed by a plus (+) are soldiers of Indian wars or their widows. Source: History of Troup County, Atlanta, Ga.: Printed by Foote & Davies Co., c1935, pp 24-25.

Gen. William McIntosh, President of the Creek Nation, after the Council had finished its work at Indian Springs, remained there some time gathering together the Council records, closing up his personal affairs and removing his personal property from Indian Springs and his Ocmulgee farm, and some time near the first of August, 1825, he made his way back to McIntosh Reserve in the present Carroll County. There a number of chiefs waited upon him, and giving him one day to arrange his affairs, they executed him in accordance with the Creek laws for the violation of their agreement not to … Read more

All of these resources are located at Family History Centers. This is a guide. Do not use this for ordering. Refer to the Family History Catalog, Troup County. AUTHOR Georgia. Superior Court (Troup County) TITLE Superior Court minutes, 1832-1905. PUBLICATION INFORMATION Salt Lake City Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1962 Atlanta, Ga. Department of Archives and History FORMAT 13 microfilm reels 35 mm NOTES Microfilm of original records filmed at the Troup County courthouse in La Grange, Georgia. CONTENTS Partially indexed Minutes 1832-1844 ———————— 0295933 Minutes 1844-1853 ———————— 0295934 Minutes, v. 6 (p. 1-860) 1854-1858 ———————— 0295935 Minutes, … Read more