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Other Information:
It is unclear when Heard County's first courthouse was built,
but it burned in 1893. A second courthouse was constructed the
following year, and this structure served until the current courthouse
was built in 1964.
County Courthouse Historical
Marker: Click
here
County History: Heard
County was created on Dec. 22, 1830 by an act of the General
Assembly (Ga. Laws 1830, p. 48). Formed from Carroll, Coweta,
and Troup counties, Heard County's original boundaries were defined
as:
. . . all that territory lying within the following bounds,
viz: commencing on the Chattahoochee river, at the corner of
fraction number one hundred and sixty-one, and one hundred
sixty three, in the fourth district of Carroll county; thence
west, a straight line to the Alabama line, thence along said
line, to the north west corner of lot number one hundred and
sixty, in the fifteenth district, formerly Carroll now Troup
county; thence a straight line to the corner of fraction, number
forty eight, on the river, in the fourteenth district of formerly
Carroll now Troup county; thence up said river, to the mouth
of Potatoe creek, in the twelfth district of Troup county;
thence a straight line to the south east corner of lot number
one hundred and twenty, in the third district of Coweta county;
thence a straight line to the north west corner, of fraction
number one hundred and seventy-six, in the fourth district
of Coweta, on the Chattahoochee river; thence a straight line
to the beginning corner . . . .
Georgia's 77th county was named for Stephen Heard (1740-1815),
a hero of the American Revolution who served as president of
Georgia's Executive Council (an early state government office
analogous to governor).
County Seat:
The act creating Heard County authorized the justices of the
county's new inferior court to select the site of the county
seat. On Dec. 26, 1831, the General Assembly designated land
lot 382 in the third district as the county seat of Heard County.
The same legislation named the county seat Franklin (for Benjamin
Franklin) and incorporated it as a town (Ga. Laws 1831, p. 83).
Maps
Size of County (Total
Area): 301.1 square miles
County Rank in Total
Area: 99th out of 159
Population:
Heard County
City of Franklin
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