Editing Coweta County, Georgia (section)

== History ==
The land for [[Lee County, Georgia|Lee]], [[Muscogee County, Georgia|Muscogee]], [[Troup County, Georgia|Troup]], Coweta and [[Carroll County, Georgia|Carroll]] counties was [[cession|ceded]] by the [[Creek people]] in the 1825 [[Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)|Treaty of Indian Springs]]. The counties' boundaries were created by the [[Georgia General Assembly]] on June 9, 1826, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. Coweta County was named for the Koweta Indians (a sub-group of the [[Creek (people)|Creek people]]), who had several towns in and around the present-day county.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030710215157/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/c.pdf |archive-date=July 10, 2003 |url-status=live | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=52 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

In the city of Newnan, on April 23, 1899, a notorious lynching occurred after an African-American man by the name of [[Sam Hose]] (born Tom Wilkes) was accused of killing his boss, Alfred Cranford. Hose was tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.

On August 9, 1882, Aleck Brown was lynched.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lynching.csde.washington.edu/#/search/GA1882080901|title=CSDE Lynching Database|website=lynching.csde.washington.edu|language=en|access-date=September 21, 2017}}</ref>