Editing Webster County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Webster County was created by an act of the [[Georgia General Assembly]] on December 16, 1853, as '''Kinchafoonee County'''.<ref name="WWC">Weston Woman's Club: ''History of Webster County, Georgia'', W. H. Wolfe Associates, Roswell, Ga., 1980, pp. 16-19.</ref>  A subsequent legislative act on February 21, 1856, changed the name to Webster.<ref name="WWC"/>  The land for the county came from eastern portions of [[Stewart County, Georgia|Stewart County]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/w.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030727152344/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/w.pdf |archive-date=July 27, 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=249 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref>

The county is named for [[Daniel Webster]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] of [[New Hampshire]] and U.S. representative and [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] of [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA242 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=November 30, 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=242| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref> Webster County's original name of Kinchafoonee came from the [[Kinchafoonee Creek]] which runs through the county.<ref name="WWC"/>

On January 1, 2009, the city of [[Preston, Georgia|Preston]] and town of [[Weston, Georgia|Weston]] gave up their municipal charters and formed a [[consolidated city-county]] known as the '''Unified Government of Webster County'''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Webster County Comprehensive Plan 2024–2029|author=River Valley Regional Commission|publisher=Unified Government of Webster County|location=Preston, Georgia|date=September 10, 2024|accessdate=December 10, 2024|page=4|url=https://dca.georgia.gov/document/plans/unified-government-webster-county-comprehensive-plan-update-2024/download#page=6}}</ref>