DeKalb County State Historical Marker

Located at the Old DeKalb County Courthouse, Decatur, Ga.

 

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DeKALB COUNTY

 

DeKalb County, created by Act of General

Assembly Dec. 9, 1822 and including Fulton

County until 1853, was named for Baron Johann

DeKalb, a native German who fought gallantly

for American freedom. Wounded and captured

at the Battle of Camden, S.C., August 9, 1780,

he died a British prisoner. Most of the

early settlers of DeKalb County came from

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina.

First County Officers, commissioned March 18,

1822 in Fayette County, were: John S. Welch,

Sheriff; Thomas A. Dobbs, Clerk Superior Court;

Jonathan Dobbs, Clerk Inferior Court; John

Calhoun, Coroner; James Adams, Surveyor

 

044-29.5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955

 

 

Photo: Ed Jackson

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