- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Chattooga County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-05-15
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chattooga County, 34.47502, -85.34529
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Chattooga County, Georgia. Chattooga County, in northwest Georgia, is the state's ninety-third county. The 314-square-mile county borders Alabama and was established from parts of Walker and Floyd counties in December 1838 by the state legislature. The county is named for the Chattooga River, which flows through the area and is the smaller of two Georgia rivers bearing that name. (The larger Chattooga River forms part of the state's northeast border between Georgia and South Carolina.) The county may be best known as the longtime home of folk artist and country philosopher Howard Finster and as the place where Sequoyah developed a written alphabet for the Cherokee language.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/chattooga-county/
- Language:
- eng
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