Elisha Winn House Virtual Cache
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This is a Virtual Cache. The Elisha Winn Fair is held the first weekend in October. Tour the house and grounds, hear some old-time music, eat some boiled peanuts or a funnel cake and see the Civil War encampment. Children's activities and arts and crafts are available. Please click on the profile link and email me the answers to the questions posted below.
Gwinnett County in Georgia was created by an act of the Georgia legislature, meeting at the State Capitol in Milledgeville on December 15, 1818. This legislative act brought into being the counties of Gwinnett, Walton and Hall. These counties were named for the three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence: Button Gwinnett, George Walton and Lyman Hall. The territories that comprised these three counties were former Indian lands ceded to the state of Georgia and smaller portions of headright lands formerly in Jackson County. The headright lands were transferred to the new counties so there would be a population to hold elections and begin the operations of government while the former Indian land could be distributed throught a state lottery.
Within these transferred lands was the home of Elisha Winn and it was here that the first elections and court sessions here held, and where Gwinnett's first jail was located. After acquiring lands on the Appalachee river, Elisha Winn built this house in 1812 and moved his family here. In this house much of the planning for the new county took place and here the first functions of county government were carried out. The first county elections were held in the Winn parlor and by early spring of 1819, Gwinnett County had a full slate of elected officials. Early sessions of Superior Court, serving several counties including Gwinnett, were held in Elisha Winn's barn. A small log jail was erected near the barn to house prisoners of the court. Although the seat of the government was relocated to a permanent setting in the newly created city of Lawrenceville, the Elisha Winn farm site has meaningful significance to the early history of Gwinnett County. The Winn House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and a Georgia Historical Marker is located at this site. The Winn complex also includes an 1870's one-room school house, which was moved to this site in 1986.
The house and grounds are open to the public the first weekend of October for the annual Elisha Winn Fair. In order to receive credit for this virtual find, please click on the Profile Link after visiting (no internet finds) and email me the answers to these questions, and then log your find. Please do not post your answers on the cache site.
1. Where and when was Elisha Winn born?
2. What number is on the Historical Marker, bottom left corner?
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