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Gordon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia . As of 2000, the population was 44,104. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 52,044. The county seat is Calhoun .
Gordon County was created on February 13, 1850 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly . The new county was formed from portions of Cass and Floyd counties. All lands that would become Gordon County were originally occupied by the Cherokee Indians -- and, in fact, the area was home of New Echota , the last seat of the Cherokee Nation . Even while Cherokees remained on their homeland, the General Assembly enacted legislation in December 1830 that provided for surveying the Cherokee Nation in Georgia and dividing it into sections, districts, and land lots. Subsequently, the legislature identified this entire area as " Cherokee County " . An act of December 3, 1832 divided the Cherokee lands into ten new counties—Cass , Cherokee, Cobb , Floyd , Forsyth , Gilmer , Lumpkin , Murray , Paulding , and Union . Cherokee lands were distributed to whites in a land lottery, but the legislature temporarily prohibited whites from taking possession of lots on which Cherokees still lived. It was not until December 29, 1835 that Georgia had an official basis for claiming the unceded Cherokee lands that included the future location of Gordon County. In the Treaty of New Echota , a faction of the Cherokees agreed to give up all Cherokee claims to land in Georgia, Alabama , Tennessee , and North Carolina and move west in return for $ 5 million. Though a majority of Cherokees opposed the treaty and refused to leave, the U.
