Editing Gwinnett County, Georgia (section)

==History==
In 1813, [[Fort Daniel]] was created during the [[War of 1812]] in territory that would become Gwinnett County.<ref>{{Cite web|last=D'Angelo|first=James J.|date=July 15, 2011|title=Fort Daniel|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/fort-daniel|access-date=October 23, 2020|website=[[New Georgia Encyclopedia]]|language=en|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023210006/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/fort-daniel|url-status=live}}</ref> The county was created in 1818 by an act of the [[Georgia General Assembly]], Gwinnett County was formed from parts of [[Jackson County, Georgia|Jackson County]]  (formerly part of [[Franklin County, Georgia|Franklin County]]) and from lands gained through the cession of [[Muscogee|Creek Indian]] lands. Named for [[Button Gwinnett]], one of the signatories of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], the first county election was held at the home of Elisha Winn, and the first Superior Court was held in his barn. The county seat was later placed at Lawrenceville.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Gwinnett County|url=http://www.gwinnetths.org/history.html|website=Gwinnetths.org|publisher=Gwinnett Historical Society|access-date=December 19, 2014|archive-date=December 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223062123/http://www.gwinnetths.org/history.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1831, a group of white men were tried and found guilty in Lawrenceville for violating Georgia law by living in the Cherokee Nation without a valid passport from the Governor. Two of the men appealed to the US Supreme Court in [[Worcester v. Georgia]], which resulted in a ruling stating that only the federal government had jurisdiction over native lands, a decision which still stands.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Gwinnett County: A Bicentennial Celebration|last=Gagnon|first=Michael|publisher=Gwinnett Historical Society|year=2018|location=Gwinnett Historical Society}}</ref>

In 1861, all three of Gwinnett County's representatives at the [[Georgia Constitutional Convention (1861)]] in [[Milledgeville, Georgia|Milledgeville]] voted against secession. Towards the end of the war, Union troops foraged in Gwinnett County as part of the [[Atlanta Campaign]].<ref name=":0" />
The [[Freedmen's Bureau]] was active in Gwinnett County during [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]. In 1871, the courthouse in Lawrenceville was burned by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in an attempt to avoid prosecution for their crimes, which included the shooting of a Black election manager in [[Norcross, Georgia|Norcross]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Holman|first=Tyler|date=2018|title=A Destructive Conflagration|journal=Georgia Backroads|volume=17|issue=4|pages=39–43}}</ref>

Early in the county's history, gold mining was a minor industry. The Gwinnett Manufacturing Company, a cotton textile factory, operated in Lawrenceville in the 1850s through 1865, when it burned. The [[Bona Allen Company]] in [[Buford, Georgia]] produced saddles, harnesses and other leather goods from 1873 to 1981.<ref name=":0" />

The northeastern part of Gwinnett County was removed in 1914 to form a part of the new [[Barrow County, Georgia|Barrow County]].