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Chattahoochee County was created by an act of February 13, 1854, from parts of Muscogee and Marion Counties and was named for the Chattahoochee River. Its courthouse, constructed in 1854, was built of select heart lumber from the Long Leaf Pine by slave labor. The first county officers, commissioned March 11, 1854, were William W. Bussey, Sheriff; N.N. Howard, Clerk Superior Court; Ezekiel Walters, Clerk Inferior Court; Abner Smith, Ordinary; William H. Askew, Tax Receiver; Stephen Parker, Tax Collector; Littleton Morgan, Surveyor; and William S. Howard, Coroner.
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