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The size of the lots were either 250 acres or 490 acres. Drawings for the lottery occurred between
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Muscogee an immense area of land which would become the southern third of the entire state of Georgia. A second section of land in northeast Georgia was included. This other, smaller section defined the eastern end of the
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