{"id":34,"date":"2011-01-23T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hh.thehandcoders.com\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:57:43","slug":"history-of-heard-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"History of Heard County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creek Indians held the land in west central Georgia until the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825.\u00a0 Their imprint on the area is seen in names of rivers and streams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chattahoochee, Hillabahatchee, Centralhatchee, Wehutkee (Whitewater), Puchusehatchee (Yellow Dirt), Nucosocsumaw\u0153 Bears Hiding Place\u009d (Nutt Creek) and in artifacts that are unearthed in freshly plowed fields and along creek banks.<\/p>\n<p>After the treaty, settlers quickly occupied the west Georgia area as a result of land lotteries, and the pioneer spirit of families who kept pushing west.\u00a0 Heard County was formed in 1830 with 301 square miles drawn from parts of Carroll, Coweta and Troup counties.\u00a0 The new county was named in honor of Stephen Heard, a noted patriot of the American Revolution and influential Georgia leader.<\/p>\n<p>The county seat of Franklin was incorporated in 1831 and named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.\u00a0 Many communities have flourished in the county over the years with their own histories Centralhatchee, Cooksville, Corinth, Enon Grove, Ephesus(Loftin), Frolona, Glenloch, Glenn, Houston, Liberty Hill, Mt. Pleasant, Owensbyville, Red Oak, Rockalo, Roosterville, Simpson, State Line, Texas, Unity, Walnut Hill, Waresville, and Yellow Dirt.<\/p>\n<p>The US Census of 2000 reported the following populations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heard County\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11,012<\/li>\n<li>Franklin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 902<\/li>\n<li>Ephesus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0388<\/li>\n<li>Centralhatchee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 383<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creek Indians held the land in west central Georgia until the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825.\u00a0 Their imprint on the area is seen in names of rivers and streams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chattahoochee, Hillabahatchee, Centralhatchee, Wehutkee (Whitewater), Puchusehatchee (Yellow Dirt), Nucosocsumaw\u0153 Bears Hiding Place\u009d (Nutt Creek) and in artifacts that are unearthed in freshly plowed fields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heardhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}