- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Dalton
- Creator:
- Deaton, Thomas M.
- Date of Original:
- 2009-09-25
- Subject:
- Dalton (Ga.)
Cities and towns--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Dalton, Georgia,the carpet capital of the world. Located eighty miles north of Atlanta and thirty miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the Valley and Ridge province of northwest Georgia, it is the seat of Whitfield County, at the southern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains. More than 80 percent of the tufted carpet manufactured in America is produced within a 100-mile radius of Dalton. According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Dalton is 33,128.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/dalton/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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