Whitesburg is a town in Carroll County, Georgia, United States.

In the historic period after European encounter, it was occupied by members of the Creek Confederacy, a loose grouping of related peoples, and was known as the area of the Lower Towns by the early nineteenth century.

William McIntosh, a mixed-race leader of the Creek, established a modest house and plantation here.

He was executed in 1825 on order of the Creek National Council for having negotiated and signed the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs, which ceded all remaining lands in Georgia and Alabama to the United States.

[8] Whitesburg is located along the Chattahoochee River in southeastern Carroll County.

U.S. Route 27 Alternate runs from northwest to southeast through the town, leading northwest 12 mi (19 km) to Carrollton, the county seat, and southeast 11 mi (18 km) to Newnan.

Acorn Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, originates just west of Whitesburg.

It takes its name from Acorn Town, a Creek Indian settlement and plantation which stood near its mouth.