Barnett Shoals is a former town in Oconee County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Other names were Barnett's Fort and Rutherford.
History Barnett Shoals had its start as a mill town, anchored by the Star Thread Mill. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Barnett Shoals as a town in 1915. The town was officially dissolved in 1995 along with many other inactive Georgia municipalities.
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