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| | Welcome to Fannin County, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Fannin County was created by an act of the legislature at its 1853-54 session and was approved by Governor Herschel V. Johnson on the 21st day of January, 1854. |
 | | It was carved out of the counties of Gilmer, to the south, and Union, to the east, about one half of the territory of each of these counties being taken in. |
 | | Fannin County has always been an agricultural area producing a variety of crops consisting of corn, rye, wheat, oats, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, collards, livestock, poultry and eggs. |
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