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Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the... ninth-largest city in Georgia. The area where Albany is located was formerly inhabited by the Creek Indians. They called it Thronateeska after their word for "flint" because of the mineral flint that was found near the river there. The Creeks used this flintstone to make tools and weapons like arrowheads. A businessman named Nelson Tift from Connecticut settled along the Flint River in October 1836 after Indian removal transported the Creek to western lands beyond the Mississippi River. He named his new town Albany after the capital of New York because both sat at the navigable heads of rivers. The town of Albany was laid out by Alexander Shotwell in 1836. It was incorporated as a city by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 27, 1838. So many planters settled there with enslaved laborers that by 1840, Dougherty County was majority black.
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