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1886 Map with Johntown, Georgia John Dilbeck was born in 1787 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Around 1839 he moved to Dawson County (Gilmer at the time) and purchased 160 acres near the present Steve Tate/Faucett Lake area. He acquired Land Lot 160, and Land Lot 129. This was where the area of Johntown sprung up. Upon his death in 1857, the land passed to John L. Grogran, the brother of John Dilbeck's son-in-law. The descendants of the Dilbecks lived near Burnt