Editing Carnesville, Georgia (section)

==History==
The original inhabitants of the area where Carnesville sits in the Piedmont region were the [[Cherokee]] and Creek [[indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands]] of the United States. Yet, over the years, the indigenous people became indebted to the settlers, which led to the [[Cherokee treaties|Treaty of Augusta]] in 1773 and 1783, where they relinquished their claim over the land to the new settlers.

[[File:FRANKLIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE.jpg|thumb|left|The Franklin County Courthouse is one of twelve sites in Carnesville listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Georgia|National Register of Historic Places]].]]
In 1805, the county seat, Carnesville, was laid out and named in honor of [[Thomas P. Carnes|Thomas Petters Carnes]], a lawyer and politician of the [[American Revolutionary War]] era.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n68 69]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=34 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> In 1806, Carnesville was named the permanent county seat in Franklin County, Georgia. Carnesville was incorporated as a town in 1819 and subsequently enlarged to a city in 1901.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA222 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | accessdate=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | page=222| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

Carnesville was thinly settled for a considerable time after being laid out. About 80 people lived in the city at the time of its incorporation. The area around Carnesville had a free population of 9,156 and a slave population of 1,056 by 1810.<ref>{{cite book |last=Candler |first=Allen Daniel |author-link= |date=August 24, 2018 |title=Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II |url= |location= |publisher=Forgotten Books |page= |isbn=978-0265543689}}</ref>

Although primarily settled by the English, some Scotch-Irish people came from Pennsylvania into western North Carolina and South Carolina. Their children came to Franklin County, Georgia, but many of pure English origin came with them.

Growing rapidly during the [[American Civil War]] era, Carnesville grew to about 240 people, while the area around Carnesville had a free population of 9,131 and a slave population of 2,382 by 1850.<ref>{{cite book | last = White | first = George | title = Historical Collections of Georgia | publisher = Pudney & Russell | year = 1857 | url = https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle00georgoog}}</ref>

At its height, the city prospered. The city engaged to some extent in manufacturing. The area around Carnesville was an agricultural center, with farms producing crops, like cotton, corn, potatoes, sorghum, and small grains.