Whitesburg, Georgia
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Whitesburg is a town in Carroll County, Georgia, United States. The population was 588 at the 2010 census.
Whitesburg, Georgia | |
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Coordinates: 33°29′36″N 84°54′49″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Georgia |
County | Carroll |
Area | |
• Total | 2.80 sq mi (7.24 km2) |
• Land | 2.77 sq mi (7.17 km2) |
• Water | 0.03 sq mi (0.07 km2) |
Elevation | 846 ft (258 m) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 596 |
• Density | 215.24/sq mi (83.11/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 30185 |
Area code | 770 |
FIPS code | 13-82720[2] |
GNIS feature ID | 0325222[3] |
Website | http://www.whitesburgcity.com |
The McIntosh Reserve here is the former plantation of Chief William McIntosh, a prominent leader of the Lower Towns of the Creek Confederacy. He was executed at his home in 1825 on order of the National Council of the Creek Nation for having negotiated and signed the Treaty of Indian Springs that year, which ceded most of the Creek territory in Georgia and Alabama to the United States. The Creek National Council negotiated a new treaty with the United States the next year to gain a more favorable settlement, but most of the Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1820s and 1830s.
In the 21st century federally recognized tribes of the Creek include the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Kialegee Tribal Town, and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town of Oklahoma, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.
Acorn Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, originates just west of Whitesburg. It takes its name from Acorn Town, a Creek Indian settlement and plantation which stood near its mouth.[4][5]