Lumpkin, Georgia
| Lumpkin, Georgia | |
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Stewart County Courthouse in Lumpkin, GA
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 Location in Stewart County and the state of Georgia |
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| Coordinates: 32°2′59″N 84°47′45″W / 32.04972°N 84.79583°WCoordinates: 32°2′59″N 84°47′45″W / 32.04972°N 84.79583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Georgia |
| County | Stewart |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2) |
| • Land | 1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 600 ft (183 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 1,369 |
| • Density | 855.6/sq mi (333.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 31815 |
| Area code(s) | 229 |
| FIPS code | 13-47980 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0317484 |
The city of Lumpkin is the county seat of Stewart County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,369 at the 2000 census.
This area of Georgia was inhabited by succeeding cultures of indigenous Native Americans for thousands of years before European contact. Historical tribes included the Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek, who encountered European Americans as their settlements moved into traditional territory. During the Indian removal of 1830, the United States government forced such tribes to move west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, to extinguish their claims and make way for more European-American settlement.
Lumpkin was incorporated by European Americans on March 30, 1829. First named the county seat of Randolph County on December 2,1830, it became the seat of Stewart County when the latter was split from Randolph three weeks later. The city was named in honor of Wilson Lumpkin, a two-term governor of Georgia and legislator who supported Indian removal. His namesake county is at the northern end of the state.
The town grew as a commercial center served by stagecoach. Its merchants traded with the planters in the area. This was part of the Black Belt, named for the fertile land in the upland South that supported extensive cotton plantations in the 19th century. In the antebellum years, planters depended on the labor and skills of hundreds of thousands of enslaved African Americans to cultivate and process the cotton for market.
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