Civil Municipal - Oct 2023

180 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 10 amed for George Troup, the thirty- fourth governor of Georgia in 1826, Troup County comprises 446 square miles in the west- central part of the Peach State, on land originally inhabited by the native Creek people. Like much of the antebellum South, the area was originally developed for cotton cultivation, relying on slave labor to drive its agrarian economy. By 1860, Troup was the fourth-wealthiest and fifth- largest slaveholding county in the state. N