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are some kind researchers who do live in or
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Lamar County, Georgia was created
in 1920 from the western portion of Monroe County
and the eastern portion of Pike County. The
county seat is Barnesville.
 The
town of Barnesville, named in honor of Gideon Barnes
who settled in the southeastern portion of Pike
County in 1826, was the largest town in Pike County.
There had been the desire among the residents for
a number of years to form a new county because of
the distances to Zebulon, the county seat of Pike
County, and to Forsyth, the county seat of Monroe
County. In 1920, therefore, the residents
petitioned the Georgia Legislature for a new county.
Lamar was chosen for the county name in honor of
one of Georgia's distinguished sons,
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar.
Gideon Barnes, the founder of Barnesville, was born
December 2, 1791 in Southampton County, Virginia.
He initially settled in Jones County, Georgia where
he married Miss Sarah Crawford Raiford. In 1826
he moved to Pike County and built a house at the
intersection of two Indian trails. What began as
a trading business, grew into a stage coach line
to Columbus, a tavern, and eventually a hotel. Meanwhile
a village grew up around his property and began
to be called Barnesville. Gideon's first wife,
Miss Sarah, died in 1861 and was buried in an old
cemetery near the Methodist Church. Gideon died
in Barnesville, May 10, 1871. He and his second
wife, Huldah Ann Barnes, are buried in the Greenwood
Cemetery.
Because Lamar
County was organized after the 1920 census was taken,
the 1930 Census was the first one conducted in Lamar
County. Monroe and Pike County census reports
from 1830 to 1920 should be checked for information
about early residents of what would become Lamar
County.
Barnesville and other Lamar County sites in the
National Register of Historic Places
More information about Lamar County, including
the history of the courthouse
1915 map showing future location of Lamar County
in relation to Pike, Monroe, and Spalding Counties
Facts about Lamar County (Georgia Department
of Community Affairs)
plus some miscellaneous links
you might find helpful in your research
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