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The first United States Census in 1790 showed that 31,500 of the 82,548 people living in Georgia resided in Wilkes County, the majority of settlers coming from Virginia and North Carolina. From the original Wilkes nine other counties were taken. It is from this area that Georgia has been populated. Wilkes originally embraced Elbert (1790), Lincoln (1796), and Oglethorpe (1793) counties; and in part, Madison (1811), Taliaferro (1825-28), Warren (1793), Hart (1853), McDuffie and Greene counties.
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