Leave No Trace by Sara Driscoll

Author:Sara Driscoll [Driscoll, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Georgia’s Land Lotteries: Seven times between 1805 and 1832, Georgia used a lottery system to raffle off the land taken from the Cherokee and Creek Nations. These lotteries were unique to Georgia; no other state used a lottery system to distribute land, and almost three-quarters of the entire state was distributed under this system. Applicants could only be white males over 18 or 21 (depending on the lottery), orphans, or widows. Lot size varied widely, even in the individual lotteries. The largest lots distributed were 490 acres in the 1805 and the 1820 land lotteries. The smallest were 40-acre gold lots raffled off during the Gold Lottery of 1832.

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