https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Richmond_County,_Georgia

• 1 County Courthouse
• 2 History
  • 2.1 Parent County
  • 2.2 Boundary Changes
  • 2.3 Record Loss
• 3 Places/Localities
  • 3.1 Populated Places
  • 3.2 Neighboring Counties
• 4 Resources
  • 4.1 Cemeteries
  • 4.2 Church
    • 4.2.1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    • 4.2.2 Episcopal
  • 4.3 Court
  • 4.4 Land
  • 4.5 Local Histories
  • 4.6 Maps
  • 4.7 Marriages
  • 4.8 Migration
  • 4.9 Military
  • 4.10 Newspapers
  • 4.11 Probate
  • 4.12 Taxation
  • 4.13 Vital Records
    • 4.13.1 Marriage
• 5 Societies and Libraries
  • 5.1 Family History Centers
• 6 Web Sites
• 7 References

Richmond County Courthouse
530 Green Street
Augusta, GA 30911-0001
Phone: 760.821.2460

Clerk Superior Court has land records from 1778
and court records; Probate Court has marriage
and probate records^[1]

Parent County

1777--Richmond County was created 5 February 1777 from St. Paul Parish. County seat: Augusta ^[2]

Land

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Georgia Land and Property for additional information about early Georgia land grants from the government. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions (generally buying and selling deeds) were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Richmond County for European settlers included:^[4]

• Savannah River pre-historic
• Occaneechi Path pre-historic
• Lower Creek Trading Path pre-historic
• Cisca and St. Augustine Trail (or Nickajack Trail) pre-historic
• Fort Moore-Charleston Trail about 1716
• Fall Line Road about 1735
• Augusta-Savannah Trail 1739
• Great Valley Road (south fork) 1740s
• Augusta-St. Augustine Trail
• Augusta and Cherokee Trail about 1777

https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Augusta_and_Cherokee_Trail

• 1 Route
• 2 Historical Background
• 3 Links
• 4 References

Route

Trail from August, Georgia to Toccoa, Georgia.^[1]

Historical Background

The north end of the Fort Charlotte and Cherokee Old Path was in Oconee County, South Carolina at the convergence of several Indian trails and settler roads mostly leading to the lower Cherokee Indian village of Tugaloo across the Savannah River in Stephens County, Georgia. Tugaloo was built at or became the nexus of several trails along the Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina. The Cherokee Indians were forced to abandon Tugaloo during the American Revolution. The Old Cherokee Path seems to have begun in Tugaloo, crossed the river into South Carolina, and worked its way north up to Watauga County, North Carolina, through Johnson County, Tennessee, and Washington County, Virginia. There it connected to the Great Indian Warpath or Great Valley Road as it was called in that area. ^[2]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_County,_GA

Richmond County was established in 1777 by the first Constitution of the (newly independent) State of Georgia. As such, it is one of the original counties of the state. It was formed out of a portion of the colonial Parish of St. Paul, after the Revolution disestablished the Church of England in the (former) Royal Province of Georgia.