The Towns of White County, Georgia

White County, Georgia centers on Cleveland, its county seat, named for War of 1812 veteran and early settler General Benjamin Cleveland. The town has served as the county's civic center since White County split off from Habersham County in 1857, anchored by the brick courthouse built there in 1859 and 1860.

Beyond Cleveland, the Nacoochee area remains the county's most historically layered community, home to the Nacoochee Mound left by earlier Mississippian mound-builder settlement and later the center of White County's gold-mining industry following the 1828 discovery near Duke's Creek. Several smaller communities across the county grew up around that same gold-mining economy in the decades that followed.

Researchers working a specific White County family should use this page alongside the surname and obituary indexes elsewhere in this section, since many town-level records were transcribed separately from the county-wide indexes.

Records in This Section

1 record

• Mossy Creek, GA