Mitzi, Thank you so much for the info! This is part of what I am looking for. Many helpful people responded to my question, however, some thought I was refering to the formation of the counties. I wasn't. GA was always GA and FLwas always FL; Decatur Co was always in GA and Gadsden Co was always in FL. BUT, where was GA and where was FL??? The Watson Line also has to do with the FL/GA lines. Thanks again! You've been most helpful. Liz In a message dated 08/04/2000 2:35:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mitzi@cncnet.com writes: << Subj: [GAEARLY-L] FL & GA state line History Date: 08/04/2000 2:35:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: mitzi@cncnet.com (Mitzi Bateman) Reply-to: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com The History of Decatur County devotes chapter VIII to "The Boundary Line Between Georgia and Florida". Decatur County was always in GA, but the question was, where was GA? A couple of quotes from the chapter: " The Florida Legislature on February 8th, 1861, adopted the Orr and Whitline line as the permanent boundary line between the two states but, probably on account of the confusion incident to the Civil War, Georgia did not pass the necessary legislation until December, 1866. Congress confirmed the agreement on April 9th, 1872 and thus ended a controversy of OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS. (caps mine) The last heard of this matter was on October 17, 1887 when the Supreme Court of the United States finally adjudicated the question of land titles arising from the boundary dispute in the case of Coffee vs Groover, Vol 123 of Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States." (pages 96, 97) "Much of the information about the boundary line is obtained from U.S. Senate Document no. 467 reprinted May 1908 entitled "Boundary Line Between Georgia and Florida" and given to the writer by H.H. Nussbaum." (page 97) I recommend that anyone interested read the entire chapter...or even more of the book. I think it is both fascinating history and well written by Frank Jones. Mitzi ==== GAEARLY Mailing List ==== Help support Free Viewing of Genealogicial Resources! http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html What is RootsWeb all about?? - http://www.rootsweb.com/ ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <.GAEARLY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 02:35:52 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 02:35:31 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e746Z1C03067; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:35:01 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:35:01 -0700 X-Original-Sender: mitzi@cncnet.com Thu Aug 3 23:35:00 2000 Message-ID: <000401bffdde$c4115320$0c4ae7cf@pavilion> From: "Mitzi Bateman" <.mitzi@cncnet.com> Old-To: <.GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com> References: <43.8734fef.26bb5e0e@aol.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:39:38 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Subject: [GAEARLY-L] FL & GA state line History Resent-Message-ID: <5jzW5.A.vv.VQmi5@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <.GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/461 X-Loop: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: GAEARLY-L-request@rootsweb.com >>