Buffington is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Cherokee County,
Georgia
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, United States. It began as the location of
Fort Buffington, one of the
Cherokee Removal Forts used as collection points for the
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...
before the beginning of the
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the " Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their black slaves within that were ethnically cleansed by the U ...
in 1838.
After this time, Fort Buffington was either dismantled or fell into ruin, and only a state historical marker along
State Route 20 stands to identify its former site. Today, Buffington is transforming from a rural to suburban community.
References
Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Georgia
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
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