Commerce, Georgia Commerce, Georgia Location in Jackson County and the state of Georgia Location in Jackson County and the state of Georgia State Georgia Website City of Commerce Georgia Website Commerce is a town/city in Jackson County, Georgia, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 6,544. 4.1 Commerce City School District Before European pioneer arrived, the region around present-day Commerce was inhabited by the Creek and the Cherokee. The Lacoda Trail, which extended from present-day Athens-Clarke County to the north Georgia mountain peaks, was a momentous trade and travel route through this area.
Local histories that originated in the mid-1800s describe a territorial war between the Creeks and Cherokees over the territory in the county amid the 1770s. This war never occurred.
For about a decade after their 1754 defeat, all Cherokee villages in the Georgia colony and the Hiwassee River Valley in North Carolina were abandoned. William Bartram traveled through northeastern Georgia in 1773, and described the Creeks as being completely dominant over the Cherokees. The Cherokees never occupied or held title to lands inside the boundaries of Jackson County.
The Creek Confederacy ceded its lands east of the Oconee River in 1785. A subsequent treaty in 1793 ceded the remainder of the territory that was to turn into Jackson County.
The first permanent white settlement in Jackson County began near present-day Commerce on January 20, 1784, when German immigrant William Dunson was awarded a territory grant on Little Sandy Creek.
The Harmony Grove Female Academy, the first all-female school chartered in the state of Georgia, was chartered by the state council on December 20, 1824.
On September 1, 1876, the North Eastern Railroad opened its line from Athens to Lula, which passed through the heart of Harmony Grove.
Harmony Grove Mills, Inc., was organized under the laws of Jackson County on April 3, 1893, for the purpose of refining and producing cotton textiles.
Harmony Grove was reincorporated and retitled "Commerce" on August 6, 1904, in an accomplishment to address these concerns and reflect the city's commercial dominance in the north Georgia cotton trade. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.3 square miles (21 km2), of which, 8.3 square miles (21 km2) of it is territory and 0.12% is water.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.13% White, 14.74% African American (Black), 0.15% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.60% from other competitions, and 0.89% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 10.2% of families and 12.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 17.5% of those under age 18 and 26.1% of those age 65 or over.
Commerce City School District The Commerce City School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of two elementary schools (the major school includes a pre-school program), a middle school and a high school. The precinct has 89 full-time teachers and over 1,358 students. Commerce Primary School (pre-K through 2nd grade) Commerce Elementary School (3rd and 4th grades) Commerce Middle School (5th thru 8th grades) Commerce High School (9th thru 12th grades) Bill Anderson, nation music singer, songwriter and tv personality, famous for "City Lights" written in Commerce; raised in Commerce.
Hardman, served two terms as the 65th Governor of the state of Georgia from 1927 to 1931; born in Commerce. "City of Commerce Georgia Website".
City of Commerce Georgia Website.
The Early History of Jackson County, Georgia: "The Writings of the Late G.J.N.
Wilson, Gustavus, Early History of Jackson County, GA, Atlanta: White Publishing, 1911.
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 5, 2010.
School Stats, Retrieved June 5, 2010.
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