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Whitfield County, Georgia

   House Bill, No. 64, providing for a new county in the galaxy of counties of
Georgia, was introduced and passed at the regular session, 1851, of the General
Assembly of Georgia, and the following is a synopsis of the passage of the bill,
and the establishment of the county:

   In the Senate: Read first time December 9, 1851; read second time December
15, 1851; read third time and passed December 24, 1851.

   At this time James A. Merriwether was Speaker of the House, and Thaddeus
Sturgis was Clerk; Andrew J. Miller was President of the Senate, and Luther I.
Glenn was Secretary.

   Honorable Howell Cobb, as Governor, approved the Bill December 30, 1851.

   On roll call in the House December 8, 1851, House Journal, 1851, Page 287, at
3:00 o'clock, P. M., the bill received fifty-three years and fifty-one days, S.
S. Bailey, representative from Murray county, voting for the passage of the Bill.

   In the Senate, Senate Journal, 1851, Page 314, the Bill received fourteen
votes favoring its passage, and twelve votes in opposition, on Wednesday,
December 24, 1851, when it was passed.

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   The word: "Whitfield" was inserted in the bill at the last moment, as appears
in the following part of the bill:

   "Be it enacted: That the new county described in the first Section of this
Act, shall be known by the name of WHITFIELD, and be attached to the Cherokee
Judicial Circuit."

   The new county was taken largely from Murray county with a small strip on the
western side carved from Walker county.

   To Whitfield, an associate of the Wesleys, is attributed the honor of having
the county named for him.

   Whitfield county is located just south of the 35th parallel, north latitude;
85th degree, west longitude; has an average altitude of about seven hundred
feet, and an area of two hundred eighty-one square miles.
The first election for county officers was held in January, 1852.

   The first settlers of Whitfield county were of the purest Anglo-Saxon blood,
many of whom came here from North Carolina.

   Whitfield county has made its reasonable contribution to the body politic,
and, practically without exception, its officers and representatives have
acquitted themselves as persons who literally regarded public office as being a
public trust.

   The following lists contain the names of those who have served Whitfield
county, and, while there may be some omissions, in the whole the roster may be
regarded as approximately correct.

"He's true to God who's true to man."

   Originally, there were not so many districts, but in 1933, the following are
the voting precincts and militia districts, given by name and number:

   Dalton district, 872nd District G. M., vote at Dalton;
   Cohutta, 1278th District G. M., vote at Cohutta;
   Upper Tenth, 1294th District G. M., vote at Tucker's school;
   Varnell, 628th District G. M., vote at Varnell;
   Lower Tenth, 629th District G. M., vote at Deep Springs;
   Tunnel Hill, 1049th District G. M., vote at Tunnel Hill;
   Ninth, 631st District G. M., vote at Dawnville;
   Fincher, 1305th District G. M., vote at Keith's Mill;
   Mill Creek, 1233rd District G. M., vote at Mill Creek;
   Rocky Face, 1433rd District G. M., vote at Rocky Face;
   Trickum, 863rd District G. M., vote at McCutchen;
   Carbondale, 1298th District G. M., vote at Carbondale;
   Tilton, 627th District G. M., vote at Tilton.

   Whitfield county is located in the following divisions: Seventh Congressional
District; Forty-third State Senatorial District; Cherokee State Judicial
Circuit; Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division, United States District
Court.


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