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Butts county is one of Georgia’s most historic counties and it is only fitting 
and proper that this county should be named for one of the most courageous men 
of the time, Captain Samuel Butts, great soldier and fighter for rights of man 
that they might live in peace.   Most people think of Indian Springs when Butts 
is mentioned for these famous Springs are in Butts County.   Others perhaps 
think of the historic old home of Robert Grier which stood on the very spot 
where the First National Bank of Jackson stands today.   Jackson, too, comes to 
our mind when Butts County is mentioned for it is the county seat and was 
incorporated back in 1826 and named for Governor James Jackson who served 
Georgia in that capacity from January 12, 1798 to March 3, 1801.  Two famous 
treaties were signed at Indian Springs, the results of which caused McIntosh to 
be murdered and Georgia to receive all of the land within the borders of her 
State once owned by the Creeks.  One of the treaties was signed on January 8, 
1821 and the other February 12, 1825.  The Creeks received $400,000 and acre 
for acre of land west of the Mississippi River.  Many Georgians have visited 
the Wigwam Hotel, which burned at Indian Springs in 1921; many of us have seen 
the Old Mill built in 1873; the Varner House which was used as early as 1821 as 
a hotel; the story of the Alberta Mill has been told to us many times upon our 
visits Indian Springs; the Old Collier House and many other points of 
interest.   Today, thanks to our citizens of Butts County, this area is known 
as Indian Springs State Park with thousands of lovely trees, stone buildings, 
drives, walks, is indeed a place of beauty.  Appropriate markers may be seen.  
Thanks for all of this must go to those citizens of Butts County who back in 
1933 gave Georgia 122 acres of land around the Springs for the present State 
Park.  The Indian knew the Springs as health-giving and we today feel the same 
about them.    But tourists, summer visitors from near and far, visit annually 
this spot of beauty in Butts County which County is surrounded by the following 
other counties; Henry, Newton, Jasper, Monroe, Lamar and Spalding.   The Court 
House at Jackson houses the earliest marriage register and Will book.    This 
courthouse was built in 1898 and there were two courthouses prior to this 
present one according to Mrs. J. E. Lane, who served as Official County 
Historian until her death, her history being unfinished.

Georgia Society of Historical Research
Mrs. Robert Harrison Jones, Jr,. President



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