Gilmer County, 1832

According to the 1832 law dividing Cherokee lands into ten new counties:   Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and such parts of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth districts as lie east of a line commencing at the centre of the south line of the twenty-fourth, and running due north to the north line of the twenty-fifth, and so much of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh districts of said second section, as lies east of a range of mountains running north and south through said district, shall form and become one county, to be called Gilmer.   As we know the topography of the region today, the western boundary of Gilmer County was supposed to travel in a north-south straight path until it reached a point in the 26th district where the ridge of the western front of the Cohutta Mountains cut to the east leaving a triangle-shaped gap.     Map Source: Redrafting of Hall's 1895 Map of Georgia, Georgia's Office of Secretary of State

 

 

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