LOOKING BACK
May 21, 1733: The land that would form Effingham County was ceded to the English by the Creeks in the Treaty of Savannah on this date, confirmed and expanded by agreements of 1735 and 1736. By an act of March 15, 1758, the colonial legislature created seven parishes. The area of present-day Effingham County primarily fell in St. Matthews Parish, which stretched along the Savannah River north of Savannah.