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Historical Tidbits of Stewart County
Local militia "Stewart County Guard" fights off Creek Indian attacks in 1835-1836. Disbanded 1850.
Bedingfield Inn (built 1836)
Masonic Female College is razed in 1852
No railroads till 1886. The railroads had been built in the 1850s to the north and south of Lumpkin which led to a slow decline.
Wooden Courthouse until 1895.
Cotton was its primary crop. (3rd largest cotton producing county in GA.)
Major stagecoach hub.
City in decline by 1861 due to soil erosion, population decline and the lack of a rail station.
1860 population of Lumpkin was 1,476.
1860 population of Stewart County was 13,422.
Civil War Infantry regiments included:
2nd GA Infantry - "Stewart Grays" Co. K Bennings Brgd, ANV
21st GA, Company I - "Stewart Infantry"
17th GA Infantry Co. I
31st GA, Bartow Guards Co. E Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brgde, ANV
46th GA Xollicoffers Guards Co. G Gists Brgde, Army of SC
3rd GA Cavalry Co. E Rawson Rangers - AoT
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