Bowdon lies near the geographical center of the last land in Georgia owned by the Creek Nation and ceded to the U.S. This tract, approximately 550 square miles in area, was 80 miles long and 10 miles wide at its widest point. When Carroll County was surveyed in 1827, it was discovered that all of some districts and parts of others were still in Creek Territory and beyond the limits of the treaties of Jan. 24 and March 31, 1826. An additional treaty, signed at the Creek Agency Nov. 15, 1827, ceded all remaining Creek lands lying within the chartered limits of the State of Georgia.