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    The Georgia land lotteries were an early nineteenth century system of land redistribution in Georgia. Under this system, various categories of persons...
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  • tickets to be available, simultaneously, by each US lottery. Most lotteries, including Georgia's, offered both games beginning January 31, 2010. Instant...
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  • The 1832 Land Lottery was the sixth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and...
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  • The 1821 Land Lottery was the fourth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805...
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  • The 1805 Land Lottery was the first lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and...
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  • his successor Joshua in Joshua 13:6. The Georgia Land Lotteries held between 1805 and 1833 The allocation of land in the former Kiowa-Comanche and Apache...
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  • The 1820 Land Lottery was the third lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and...
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  • The 1827 Land Lottery was the fifth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and...
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  • The 1807 Land Lottery was the second lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805...
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  • removal Georgia Land Lotteries 1805 Land Lottery 1807 Land Lottery 1820 Land Lottery 1821 Land Lottery 1827 Land Lottery 1832 Land Lottery Gold Lottery of...
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  • 1833 Fractions Lottery was the eight and final lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years...
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    Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge (category Georgia Land Lotteries)
    Georgia and the South in the mid-to-late-19th century. Located on former Cherokee land, the land lots comprising this complex were won in the Georgia...
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  • reference to the property—2nd Section, 17th District, Land Lot 7—is in the 1832 Gold Lottery of Georgia, when it was deeded to William Alexander. A warranty...
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    Franklin-Creighton Mine (category Georgia Land Lotteries)
    Franklin-Creighton Mine was a Georgia Gold Rush gold mine located off what is now Yellow Creek Road in the town of Ball Ground in Cherokee County, Georgia. The mine, located...
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    The Gold Lottery of 1832 was the seventh lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and...
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    Cherokee County was distributed to European-Americans via the 1832 Georgia Land Lotteries, though the lands were not settled by them until the 1835 Treaty...
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    Dade County won the land in the Georgia Land Lotteries, held to encourage settlement after the Cherokee people were forced off the land. Many settlers worked...
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  • in the 1820s, American citizens began acquiring land in the area through the Georgia land lotteries. During the Civil War, Atlanta became a major supply...
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    for the farmers who had mostly come to this area as part of the Georgia Land Lottery of 1827. Upon the arrival of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad...
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  • Sixes mine (category Geology of Georgia (U.S. state))
    was driven off their land, the Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 took place, which granted 40-acre (160,000 m2) plots of land to Georgia residents who were fortunate...
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    John Rountree Log House (category Georgia Land Lotteries)
    half-dovetail notching, in Georgia. It was built in c.1830 or 1832 by John Rountree on land awarded to his family in the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. A rear shed addition...
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    Poole's Mill Covered Bridge (category Georgia Land Lotteries)
    in 1838. The land that held the bridge and mills was won in the land lottery by John Maynard of Jackson County, Georgia, who sold the land to Jacob Scudder...
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    "squirearchy," two distinct divisions of landed farmers created by the Georgia Land Lottery of 1820. Between 1820 and 1840, agriculture was principally sheep...
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  • Austin Dabney (category Georgia (U.S. state) militiamen in the American Revolution)
    Dabney in his benefactor's honor. When Dabney was barred from the Georgia Land Lotteries, Upson arranged for the state legislature to grant him 112 acres...
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    population of Appling County increased as the county was included in land lotteries by the Georgia General Assembly in 1820, 1821, 1827, and 1832. Large proportions...
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    acres (approximately 120 hectares or 1.2 km2) of land in southern Cobb County from the Georgia Land Lottery of 1832. Mable was a millwright and farmer who...
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  • American rural history in Georgia. In 1821, Revolutionary war soldiers and others acquired land through the Georgia Land Lottery and began to move into the...
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  • Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center (category Georgia Land Lotteries)
    Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center is located in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States. The Autrey Mill Nature Preserve & Heritage Center provides...
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    into their former areas, in some cases acquiring land through lotteries run by the state. The Georgia General Assembly created Chattahoochee County on...
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    the city's first mayor and city council. The 1821 Georgia Land Lottery opened portions of state land for settlement between the Flint and Ocmulgee rivers...
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