Welcome to Gwinnett County
History and Genealogy! I'm Pat Sabin, your host for
this Gwinnett
County History site. I've enjoyed working on this little
site since 2000.
I'm
pleased to announce that I will be hosting the Gwinnett County
GAGenWeb site, as part of the USGenWeb Project. I am new to
GAGenWeb but not to the USGenWeb
Project, where I've been an active volunteer and County
Coordinator since 1998. If you are curious, you can
find all of my history, genealogy, and vintage postcard sites
linked at Pat's
Place.
I will not be
taking
this site down, but any new
history, genealogy,
and photographs will appear on the new site, which finally went live
the morning of June 24, 2004! The URL for the new Gwinnett
County GAGenWeb site is http://www.oldplaces.org/gwinnettga/
Of course, it will be linked from the county
selection page at GAGenWeb.
As soon as I have a chance to check links, etc., I'll be opening
the doors
to new contributions from you Gwinnett County researchers!
My
genealogy
research usually takes me to East Tennessee, South Carolina, New
England
and Northern Illinois, but I actually live in the Mountain Park
(Garner
District-Lilburn) area of Gwinnett, practically in the shadow of Stone
Mountain. It's a quiet, old fashioned community of
rolling
hills and large oak trees, there are still a few quaint little
farm
houses along Five Forks- Trickum Road, which runs from Stone Mountain
to
Lawrenceville.
History
Gwinnett
County was
named after Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, who was a state legislator and served as
Georgia's
Governor for a few months in 1777. He was wounded in a duel
and died three days later, on May 19, 1777. He is buried in
Savannah.
For
hundreds of years
preceding the permanent white settlements in what is now Gwinnett
County,
the Creek and Cherokee Indians occupied the land. In 1789 and
1790
the Cherokee Indians ceded to the United States Government all lands
north
and east of a line running through Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South
Carolinas and north Georgia, including portions of Gwinnett.
Two of the
earliest
white settlements were on the Appalachee River near Hog Mountain, and
Old
Town Suwanee, once a thriving Indian village on the Chattachoochee
River,
just north of the mouth of Suwanee Creek. Most early families
located
in the area between Hog Mountain and Jug Tavern (now Winder), between
the
Mulberry and Appalachee Rivers. Read more about the History
of Gwinnett County.
 Views
of Historic Gwinnett
Vintage
Photographs and Postcards, and Color Photos
Vintage
Atlanta
Old Postcards of Atlanta GA
Old
Gwinnett County Courthouse
Georgia
History
The
Gwinnett Gazette
Lilburn and Gwinnett
County
News and Links
Links to other Gwinnett County Georgia
History
Sites
My Gwinnett Real Estate Web Site
RE/MAX Northeast,
Lilburn, Georgia
Visit my other
Genealogy, History and Vintage Postcard
Sites at
Pat's
Place
Backgrounds and Buttons By
© 1999-2004 Pat Sabin- All Rights
Reserved
|
