Lumpkin, named for Wilson Lumpkin, who served as Governor, Congressman, and Senator, was first the county seat of Randolph County and became the seat of government of Stewart County when Stewart was formed from Randolph on December 23, 1830. Located on a hill between two Indian trails to Florida, Lumpkin's first courthouse, built of logs in August 1830, was used as a blockhouse during the Indian outbreak in 1836. A two-story frame courthouse stood until 1895, when a brick courthouse, with its cornerstone laid by Masons, was built; after fire damage, it was repaired and rebuilt in 1922. Stewart County was named for Brig. Gen. Daniel Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier brevetted for bravery in Georgia's Indian Wars. Within the county are Providence Canyons and the sites of Fort McCreary, Fort Jones, Oconee Village, the Battle of Shepherd's Plantation, Indian Mounds, and Roanoke. Stewart County's first officers were William Duncan, Needham R. Bryan, and Henry Audulph, judges of the Inferior Court; Sampson L. Lampkin, surveyor; Edward Sturdivant, coroner; Thomas M. Dennis, clerk of the Inferior Court; Thomas R. Mangham, clerk of the Superior Court; Jonathan F. Bridges, sheriff; James S. Lunsford, tax receiver; and Cullen Roberts, tax collector.