Warren County was created by act of the legislature on Dec. 19, 1793, and was named for Gen. Joseph Warren, a Massachusetts Revolutionary hero killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. What is claimed to have been the first iron works and woolen mill in Georgia was established by Col. Richard Bird at Ogeechee Falls near Georgetown. Among the first county officers were sheriffs Peter Hodo and David Neal, ordinary Septimus Weatherby, clerks of Superior Court Wyche Goodwin and Isaiah Tucker, clerk of Inferior Court Turner Persons, surveyor Ethelred Thomas, and coroner John Trant.