BULLOCH COUNTY

 

Bulloch County was created from treaty lands acquired from the Creek Indians in 1796 and was the twenty-first Georgia county to be organized.  It originally included portions of Emanuel, Jenkins, and Toombs counties.  The county was the scene of many encounters between Patriots and Tories during the Revolutionary War.

 

The county was named for Archibald Bulloch, the man who presided over the Provincial Congress of July 4, 1775, and then became Georgia's first Provisional Governor in 1776.  He died mysteriously in office the next year. Theodore Roosevelt was one of his descendants.

 

The early settlers' first "highway," an old trading path, led from the Ogeechee to the Canoochee River along what is now U.S. 301 and 25 in Bulloch County.  On this route was an important Yamacraw Indian trading post of colonial times.