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Pack traders and trappers were in the area presently known as Wilkes County and Washington, Georgia when intrepid families began arriving even before the colonization of Savannah, Georgia.
In June 1773, Governor Wright issued a broadside offering the rich, deep-loamed, well-watered hills of these ceded lands of northeast Georgia for headright settlement. Sturdy pioneers of English, Scotch-Irish, and German descent from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Pennsylvania brought their families into the Parish of St. Paul in the Province of Georgia to claim this favored earth.
The first forts were established near the confluence of the Broad and Savannah rivers just north of the present town of Washington, Georgia.
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