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Fulton County State Historical
Marker
Located on the northwestern corner of the
Fulton County Courthouse, Atlanta
(Text)
FULTON COUNTY
Fulton County was created
out of DeKalb County by an Act of the Legislature
approved December 20, 1853 (as amended and corrected by the Act of February 7, 1854). The City of Atlanta
was made the County Seat. From 1872
until 1932, part of Milton and Campbell Counties
were added to Fulton. In 1932 complete consolidation with Milton and Campbell Counties and the annexation
from Cobb of the Town of Roswell fixed
the boundaries of the County.
The first officers of
the original County, commissioned February 15, 1854, were as follows:
Jonas S. Smith, Sheriff
Benjamin F. Bomar, Clerk,
Superior Court
Columbus M. Payne, Clerk,
Inferior Court
Joseph H. Mead, Ordinary
Madison S. Yoakum, Tax
Receiver
John M. Smith, Tax Collector
James Bartlett, Surveyor
John K. Landers, Coroner
The legislative act creating
Fulton County did not specify whom the name
honored. The names of two persons have been suggested:
Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat Clermont,
and Hamilton Fulton, Chief Engineer
of the State in 1826. In 1954 the Fulton County
Centennial Commission, based on research by several Atlanta
historians, gave that honor to Robert Fulton.
060-195 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1966
Photo: Ed Jackson
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
The University of Georgia
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