Editing Muscogee County, Georgia (section)

==History==
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Inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of [[indigenous peoples]], this area was territory of the historic [[Creek people]] at the time of European encounter.

The land for [[Lee County, Georgia|Lee]], Muscogee, [[Troup County, Georgia|Troup]], [[Coweta County, Georgia|Coweta]], and [[Carroll County, Georgia|Carroll]] counties was [[cession|ceded]] by a certain eight chiefs among the [[Creek people]] in the 1825 [[Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)|Treaty of Indian Springs]]. The Creek Nation declared the land cession illegal, because it did not represent the will of the majority of the people. The United States Senate did not ratify it. The following year, the US government negotiated another treaty with the Creek, by which they ceded nearly as much territory under continued pressure from the state of Georgia and US land commissioners.

The counties' boundaries were created by the [[Georgia General Assembly]] on June 9, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. The county was originally developed by American Indians for cotton plantations. In many areas of what became known as the [[Black Belt (geological formation)|Black Belt]] for the fertility of soil and development of plantations, American Indians who were reclassified by the government as Colored/Negro made up the majority of population in many counties.

This county was named by American Indians for the native [[Creek (people)|Muscogee or Creek people]]. Parts of the then-large county (which extended east to the [[Flint River (Georgia)|Flint River]]) were later taken to create every other neighboring Georgia county, including [[Harris County, Georgia|Harris County]] to the north in 1827<ref>[http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/muscogeehistmaps.htm "Muscogee County History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050402155539/http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/muscogeehistmaps.htm |date=April 2, 2005 }}, University of Georgia</ref> and [[Chattahoochee County, Georgia|Chattahoochee County]] to the south in 1854.