Campbell County, Georgia was a county of the U.S. state of
Georgia from 1828 to 1931. It was created by the state
legislature on December 20, 1828 from land taken from Fayette,
Coweta, and Carroll counties, and from the half of DeKalb County
which became Fulton County soon afterward. Georgia's Cherokee
Land Lottery of 1832 also added to the county. The county was
named for Duncan G. Campbell, one of the U.S. commissioners
responsible for the Treaty of Indian Springs. The original
county seat was Campbellton; however, when the Atlanta & West
Point Railroad began to plan its route, the town's residents
said no due to noise concerns. The tracks were laid through
Fairburn instead, which flourished while Campbellton died out,
and Fairburn soon became the new county seat in 1870. The
Campbell County Courthouse was listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. The northwestern half of Campbell (and a bit
more of Carroll) became Douglas County in 1870, divided on
October 17 at the Chattahoochee River. The remai