The Chattanooga Shale, located in northwest Georgia, was formed approximately 350 million years ago, when the area was covered by a shallow sea. Photograph by Pamela J. W. Gore The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

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The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections. (A primary election is held before a general election in order to determine each political party’s candidates for the general election.) The county unit system continued to be used in Democratic primaries for statewide office and selected U.

Coweta County, Georgia’s sixty-fourth, encompasses 443 square miles in west central Georgia, bordered by Carroll, Fayette, Fulton, Heard, Meriwether, and Troup counties. It was one of five counties created by the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs, when Chief William McIntosh relinquished Creek Indian lands to the United States. Coweta was named after McIntosh’s tribe and their town, one of the largest centers for the Creek Nation. The new county established its seat in the settlement of Bullsboro in 1826, with Walter Colquitt as the first superior-court judge.

This 1940 US postage stamp features Dr. Crawford Long, the seventeenth-century physician from north Georgia credited with the discovery of anesthesia.  Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.