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Macon County was created from Houston and Marion counties
on Dec. 14, 1837 by an act of the General Assembly (Ga. Laws
1837, p. 66). According to that legislation, the new county's
boundaries were defined as:
"Beginning on Flint river, at the corner of Houston and
Dooly counties, running thence East, on the line between Houston
and Dooly, to the corners of the 14th and 15th Districts of Houston
county; thence due North on the line between the 14th and 15th
Districts, and between the 8th and 9th Districts of Houston county,
to the let of land in the 8th District, whereon James A. Everett,
Esq. now resides; thence around the Southern, Western and Northern
boundary of said lot of land, to the said dividing line, between
the said 8th and 9th Districts; thence due North again along
said line, to the line between Houston and Crawford counties;
thence South-westwardly along said county line, to Flint river;
thence across said river and up the same to the line between
Marion and Talbot counties; thence westwardly along said line,
to the second East meridian of the 13th District, of originally
Muscogee, now Marion county; thence due South along said meridian
line, to the line dividing the counties of Sumter and Marion;
thence Eastwardly on said line, between Sumter and Marion, to
the Flint river; and thence up and along said river, to the beginning."
Georgia's 91st county was named for North Carolina politician
Nathaniel
Macon (1757-1837), who served in both houses of Congress
(including six years as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives).
Six months after his death, the Georgia legislature named a new
county in his honor.
Portions of Macon County were used to create Taylor County
(1852) and Peach County (1924).
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