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Hart County History
Hart County was created by an Act of
the Legislature, dated December 7th, 1853, and was laid out in 1854 from
territory taken from Franklin and Elbert counties. Other territory was added
from time-to-time and several changes made to its boundary lines.
In May of 1854 the Judges of the
Inferior Court (County Council) purchased, for $200, 100 acres of land on
which to locate the county seat. The land was purchased from the heirs of
James Vickery and was laid off into streets, squares and lots. This land
became Hartwell.
The county was named for Nancy Hart,
an early settler and a Revolutionary heroine who served as a rebel spy and
killed five Tories who threatened her home. Hart County is the only county
in Georgia named for a woman.
Hart County is bordered on the north
and west by Lake Hartwell, on the south by Elbert County, and on the west by
Madison and Franklin Counties. On the east is South Carolina with the
counties of Anderson and Oconee bordering Hart's boundary line. |
