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Wilkinson County was created by acts of the legislature on May 11, 1803, and December 7, 1805. It was named for James Wilkinson, a Revolutionary general, and was formed from part of the lands acquired from the Creeks by the Treaty of Fort Wilkinson on the Oconee, at which he served as a U.S. commissioner. Irwinton, named for Governor Jared Irwin, stands on the site of an English trading post that existed before 1715. Among the county’s first officers were Sheriff Edmund Hogan, Clerk of Superior Court Archibald McIntire, Clerk of Inferior Court William Brown, Ordinary Drury Gilbert, Tax Receiver Arthur Burney, Tax Collector William O’Neal, Coroner Charles Ray, and Surveyor Britton McCullers.
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Irwinton, Georgia · United States
