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Houston County's Original Boundaries
(From an Act of May 15, 1821)
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 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 eighth
day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, shall form and
be divided into five counties as follows, to wit:
All that part of said territory which lies south of a line
commencing on the Ocmulgee river, opposite the town of Hartford,
and running due west to the Flint river, shall form one county
to be called Dooly.
All that part of said territory which lies south of a line
commencing on the Ocmulgee river, opposite Fort Hawkins, and
running due west to Flint river, and the line first above-described
shall form one other county, to be called Houston.
All that part of said territory lying between the last-mentioned
line and a line commencing at the seven islands on the Ocmulgee
river, and running due west forty miles, thence due south to
the Flint river, shall form one other county, to be called Monroe.
All that part of said territory which lies west of the last-mentioned
line, and a line commencing at the corner of Monroe county as
above described, and running north to the Chattahoochee, shall
form one other county, to be called Fayette.
All that part of said territory which lies east of the last-mentioned
line, running from the corner of Monroe county to the Chattahoochee,
shall form one other county, to be called Henry.
Source: Ga. Laws 1821 Extra. Session, p. 3.
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