Liberty County {REL[9435][listing_city]n385j4ASREL}
Liberty County was created in 1777 from the colonial parishes of St. Andrews, St. James, and St. John. The land that made up these parishes was originally held by the Creek Indians.
The county’s name honors Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett of Midway, who were Georgia’s first delegates to the Continental Congress and signers of the Declaration of Independence.
For a good look at Liberty County’s significance in the American Revolution, see the Historic Liberty Trail tour.
Naturalist, mathematician and scholar Louis LeConte, for whom the LeConte pear was named, resided in Liberty County. His home is now the site of the LeConte Botanical Gardens.
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