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526 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
Four' new counties were created by the Legislature of 1822: * De-
Kalb, Pike, Crawford and Bibb, all of which were created out of the
counties formed in 1821 from the newly acquired Creek lands. These
counties having rapidly filled with settlers, new counties were demanded.
Macon, the county-seat of Bibb, soon became one of the important towns
of the state. It was located on the opposite side of the Ocnmlgee River
from old Fort Hawkins.f
Also at this session, the Flint Judicial Circuit was created with Judge
Eli S. Shorter as its first presiding officer.
On September 24, 1824, Nicholas Ware, United States senator from
Georgia, died while on a visit to New York, whither he had gone for
medical treatment soon after taking the oath of office. His remains
were interred under the annex to Grace Church, in the City of New
York, where they still repose. To succeed Mr. Ware as United States
senator, the Legislature elected Hon. Thomas W. Cobb, of Greensboro,
then a member of Congress. Hon. Richard Henry Wilde, of Augusta,
was chosen to succeed Mr. Cobb in the Eighteenth Congress.
MclNTOSH EESERVE.—What is known as the Mclntosh Reserve is an area of land
one mile square situated in a bend of the Chattahoochee Elver, between Carroll and
Goweta Counties, where it occupies both sides of the stream. The old home of
General Mclntosh stood on the Carroll side of the river in the extreme southern
part of the county, and was reached by the famous trail, a branch of which ran
through the reserve. Here General Mclntosh was murdered by a band of the Upper
Greeks in 1826. His last resting place is unmarked; but in a grave somewhere in
this neighborhood, overlooking the tawny waters of- the Chattahoochee, the brave
chief lies buried.—"Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends." L. L. Knight.
Vol.. II.
MclNTOSH TRAIL.—Beginning at Fort Hawkins, opposite the site of the present
City of Macoii, the Mclntosh trail ran almost due west to the Old Indian Agency
on the Flint, thence northward following the valley of this stream to a point three
miles north of the present Town of! Senoia, where it divided, one branch running
eastward by way of Indian Springs to Augusta, the other running westward by way
of Newnan to Talladega, Alabama, and thence to the French villages along the
Mississippi. Portions of the trail still exist in well defined country roads, but some
of the connecting links are difficult to trace by reason of topographical changes.
Andrew .Jackson, during the second war with England, marched his troops over this
trail to New Orleans, where he won his celebrated victory on January 8, 1815. Near
Senoia, where the trail diverged, General Mclntosh built a fort the ruins of which
can still be* seen. The town which later arose in this vicinity was named for an
Indian princess famed throughout the forest for her beauty. She belonged to a
tribe known as the Gowetas or Lower Creeks, of which General Mclntosh was the
chief. Mrs. E. H. Hardaway, of Newnan, regent -of Sarah Dickinson Chapter,
D. A. K., is perhaps the foremost authority in the state on the Melntosh trail, a part
of which she has succeeded in tracing with wonderful minuteness of detail.—Ibid.,
Vol. II.
* Acts 1822, pp. 23-26.
t For additional information in regard to these counties, see section on Georgia
Miscellanies.