Butts County was created by an act of the legislature on December 24, 1825, and was named for Capt. Sam Butts, who was killed in the Indian War of 1814 at the Battle of Chalibbee. At Indian Springs, now a state park, treaties with the Creeks were signed giving Georgia first all lands between the Flint and Ocmulgee Rivers north to the Chattahoochee, and then all the remaining Indian lands in the state. Among the first county officers were Sheriff Isaac Nolen, Clerk of Superior Court Abel L. Robinson, Clerk of Inferior Court Thomas Thornton, Coroner Wm. B. Smith, and Surveyor Willie Terrell.