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Union County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 12,138. [1] The county seat is Creston. [2] Organized at a time of tensions before the Civil War, the county was named in 1853 for the union that people wanted to preserve.
Union County was originally a core part of the homeland of the native Cherokee tribe. Mountainous and formerly one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Georgia, the area became the object of desire for white settlers with the discovery of gold in the 1820s. While the gold rush didn't last long, a land lottery system opened up the area ...
What we know as Union County was originally a part of Essex County. With the growth in population and continuous division and sale of land parcels, Elizabethtown’s boundary lines continued to expand and divide. State legislature created the towns of Springfield (1793), Westfield (1794), Rahway (1804), Union (1808) and New Providence (1809).
Aug 25, 2006 · Union County, located in northeast Georgia at the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the state’s eighty-third county and comprises 323 square miles. Its northern border is shared with North Carolina. In 1832 the state legislature created Union County from Cherokee County.
Union County was created from the union of parts of five adjacent counties. Union County was formed in 1850 from portions of Grainger, Claiborne, Campbell, Anderson, and Knox Counties. At least two theories are given on the source of its name. The name may commemorate the "union" of sections of five counties, or it may reflect East Tennessee 's ...
Union County, the 88th county formed in Georgia, was created in 1832 from the Cherokee Indian territory. Union County was not named for its support of the North in the Civil War. The county received its name from a then emerging political party called the "Union Party" that was in existence 28 years before the Civil War started.
History. Union County was created by the state legislature in 1785 and consisted of 540 square miles. One of the first white settlers was most likely James Mcllwaine and a group of Scotch-Irish Protestants who came from Virginia and Pennsylvania around 1751.
