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As early as 1795 Creek Indians occupied the lands known then as Indian Agency on the Flint river and now as Crawford county.

In 1785 Col. Benjamin Hawkins became a member of the Continental Congress from North Carolina and in this body was conspicuous for his interest in Indian affairs. When the government was organized in 1789 he became one of the first US senators from North Carolina serving from 1789- 1796. Because of his wonderful success as a diplomat, especially in negotiating, the treaty of Coleraine in 1797 caused President Washington to fix his gaze upon this great man who seemed to be endowed with a perfect genius in matters of this kind. And whose patriotism soared high above all thought of self. President Washington, realizing the Indians needed a leader to teach them to be self- sustaining, immidiately turned his thoughts on Col. Hawkins as one of the ablest, most brillaint, and influential men in his organized republic, as government agent to all Indians south of the Ohio river. Col. Hawkins built the fort which was named in his honor on the Ocmulgee river at Macon, GA. While erecting the fort he resided there for a short time only. His permanent home being at the agency on the Flint river in what is now Crawford county. Knoxville, Ga, the county seat of Crawford county was named in honor of General Henry Knox a confidential friend of George Washington and his secretary of war for six years he was born in Boston, Mass. July 25,1750.


Knoxville was incorporated December 28,1825.
Knoxville school was rated as high as most colleges and many people boarded at the school.
In the spring of 1886 the Atlanta and Florida railroad company now know as Southern Railroad completed it's tracks and ran it's first train from Atlanta to Fort Valley, GA. Shortly after this run the railroad placed a box car which was converted into an office and wareroom at it's 89FV milepost. This new place of business was first called New Knoxville, Ga. Later in the year this town name was changed to Roberta, Ga. Mr. Mark Carnes was transferred to Roberta to be it's first agent. Agent Carnes carried on business in the boxcar until the summer of 1887, when the construction began on what was to be Roberta's first freight depot and passenger station. Which came in use in the early part of 1888. By the time the depot was completed in 1888, other buildings and business had sprung up close by, a new town was born and it would be called Roberta, Ga. A decision was made to change New Knoxville. Mr Hiram McCrary had given the right-of-way for the railroad to come through his land so it was decided to name the town after his youngest daughter, Roberta.
Joanna Troutman, resident of Knoxville, born on February 19, 1818, the daugher of a wealthy and socially prominent couple, Col. and Mrs. Hiram Baldwin Troutman. Joanna was educated in Scottsboro, Ga and in Barronsville, Sc. Her father opperated a large inn called Troutman Inn, in Knoxville, Ga, on a stagecoach line from Macon to Columbus. In Macon, Ga, citizens after hearing patriotic speeches on the plight of Texas' appeal for help when General Santa Anna in Mexico planned to invade the young province, raised $3150 so that within 12 days volunteers were out-fitted and ready to leave the state of Georgia to assist Texas. Joanna, at the age of 17, in her father's inn heard all of the news and feeling sorry for the texans wondered how she could help. One evening while sitting on the porch she looked up and saw the first brillant star of the night. "That is like Texas," she thought, Texas, alone and fighting. She went into the inn and designed a flag. With help of neighborhood girls she constructed a hastily made white silk flag and on either side was a blue five pointed star with the words "Liberty or Death", and Ubi libertas habitat, ibi nostra patriaest-where liberty dwells, there is my country. This patriotc flag was presented to the volunteers from Macon by Joanna from the steps of the Troutman Inn in Knoxville as they marched by, with instruction that it be given to Lt. Hugh McLeod of Macon who had recently r eturned from West Point. The flag was unfurled when the volunteers landed at Velasco, Texas where a poem about it was read and later published in the Telegraph and Register in San Felipe de Austin. This flag was flown over Fort La Bahia in Goliad, was damaged, repaired and the reduced to tatters by a strong wind. After the battle of San Jacinto, a victory for Texans, Joanna recieved two large pieves of silver taken from the captured General Santa Anna and sent to Knoxville, Ga by General Sam Houston, commander of the Texas army. The silver pieces, her thimble, and other of her silver pieces are in Texas museums to date. Joanna died on July 23, 1879 at Elmwood, a plantation in Knoxville, Ga, named after the large Elm trees. Her grave remained unmarked and Elmwood became dilapidated until a purchaser restored it in 1901, leaving the two front rooms in the house as they were when Joanna lived. The Inn in which she made the Lonestar Flag was destoryed by fire in 1928. Little remains in Georgia of this gentle, beautiful woman whose body now lies in Austin, TX, over which Texans erected a monument of
independence from Mexico. Her design of a blue star on a field of white was adopted as the official flag of Texas,



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