Indian inhabitation

Moundbuilders had settlements along the Chattahoochee River and Nickajack Creek before 1000 AD. They were followed by the Creek, who had a large settlement along Sweetwater Creek and possibly other locations in Cobb County. The land west of the Chattahoochee River was originally a trading area for the Cherokee and Creek tribes following the battle of Taliwa in 1755. Southern Cobb County was marked the boundary in an agreement between the Cherokee and Creek tribes from 1826 on.

Namesake

Cobb County is named for Thomas Willis Cobb, born in Lexington, Georgia, who practiced law in Greensboro before he was appointed to fill the seat of Nicholas Ware on December 16, 1824. After his resignation in 1828 Cobb returned to the Superior Court bench in 1828. Cobb is known for his attack on Andrew Jackson following the First Seminole War (1817-1818) and his vote to censure Jackson, whom many viewed as a military hero. Jackson was unpopular in Cobb County because he was the man selected by the federal government to remove settlers from the area west of the Chattahoochee (Cobb County) in 1820.

Cobb County beginnings

Cobb County was originally part of the massive Cherokee County in 1830. This was little more than an illegal attempt to extend the state of Georgia's laws over the Cherokee. At the time Marietta was a small community of farmhouses at the crossroads of two major roads, the (Old) Sandtown Road and the "old road," also known as one of four Alabama Roads in Georgia. While the creation of Cherokee County in 1830 did draw additional settlers, most of the land within present-day Cobb County was distributed to settlers during the 1832 Land Lottery.

Before the Cherokee Trail of Tears in 1838 many of the Cherokee left eastern Cobb, perhaps of their own free will or forced out by one of the "pony clubs." According to the law created to give away the Cherokee land, these "pony clubs" were a "horde of Thieves," but they were really much more sinister.

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