Carroll County was ceded by the Creek People in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs.  This land was ceded by William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creeks or White Sticks, and was the last remaining portion of the Creek's Georgia territory.  The cession resulted in McIntosh's murder at McIntosh Reserve near present day Whitesburg by fellow Creeks from northern Alabama called Red Sticks or Upper Creeks.  Even before the cession of the territory, some white settlers were in the northern part of the county in the Villa Rica area.