Georgetown

Settled in the early 1830’s, this town was first named Tobanana for the nearby creek. The Tobanana post office was established January 10, 1833, and the name was changed to Georgetown September 21, 1836, in honor of Georgetown, District of Columbia. Among the first settlers at Georgetown were the families of Captain Harrison Adam Leonard, Kenneth McKenzie, William Oliver, and James G. Salisbury, and other early families included the Bledsoe, Christian, Crawford, Ellington, Guerry, Mercer, Morris, Neel, and Warren families. Georgetown was designated in 1859 as the county seat of Quitman County and was laid out as a town by order of the Inferior Court. The town was incorporated by act of the legislature December 9, 1859. In the immediate vicinity on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee River was the original Lower Creek Indian town of Eufaula, which Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. Indian Agent, visited and described in 1799. Near Georgetown on the banks of Tobanana Creek, a brigade of Federal cavalry commanded by General Benjamin H. Greierson camped for a time in 1865 at the close of the War Between the States.

Georgetown-Quitman County, Georgia · United States