How did the community of Dalton, GA get its name?
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1847 is a pivotal year for the citizens of Cross Plains. In honor of founder Edward Dalton White the city changes the name to Dalton. That same year the Western and Atlantic Railroad is completed to the small town. Its location near the railroad would greatly affect the destiny of this north Georgia town.
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It was Hazzard County \ncheck this site for info-\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/hazzardcounty/
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I used to live in the state of Indiana years ago. As far as I know, the word "hoosier" is of unknown origin. One theory that I heard was it came from the common practice of shouting "Who's here?" upon receiving visitors.
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You would probably go to the GA state government  or the GBI website and see if it can't be found there.  Or go to the specific county and look it up.  I live in Forsyth County, GA and we can go to this county and find out there.
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looks like it was named after Cherokee Indian villages called "Tanasi"\n\nFROM Wikipedia\nThe earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a Native American village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. European settlers later encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi (or "Tanase") in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. The town was located on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River). It is not known whether this was the same town as the one encountered by Juan Pardo.\n\nThe meaning and origin of the word are uncertain. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend".\n\nThe modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. In 1788, North Carolina named the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee "Tennessee County". When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state.
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People in Georgia are proved of our family history. The confederacy stand for state the want to fight for the state rights. We get mad about people who do not know what the confederacy is about. If you are talk about the old Georgia flag issue then we was mad for change a flag for a small group of people did not like it.
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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RE: Does your name have some sort of a story behind it? Care to tell?\n\nMike: The story behind the name Lincoln Park is actually a place in Santa Monica, and originally we wanted our name to be Hybrid Theory, but for legal reasons we had to change it. We came up with the name Lincoln Park, but because we had such a big internet fan base, and how much money it would have cost for us to buy lincolnpark.com, we decided to make it Linkin Park, we thought it looked a lot cooler anyway.
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Are you sure this town exists?\nI found a Grifton, NC, which is located in Pitt County.\nhttp://www.grifton.com/\n\nThere is a Griffin, GA, which is in Spalding County.\nhttp://www.cityofgriffin.com/
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There have been many different explanations for the origin of the name of the gang:\n\n    * The most well-known theories tie the current name with "crib" or "crib street" (alluding to an actual street or the young age of the members at the time of the gang's founding).\n\n    * "Crip" originates from the carrying of a cane or stick — Los Angeles Times 14 April 1992: "Word spread about the tough-looking young men, who some said carried canes and walked with a limp — cripples, or crips, they were called for short."\n\n    * Mis-pronunciation of "The Crypts."\n\n    * Some alleged backronyms for the name include:\n\n        * Community (or California) Revolution/Restoration In Progress.\n\n        * Community Resources for an Independent People\n\n        * California Rebels In Power\n\n        * Crip meaning cradle to the grave. C standing for Cradle, RIP standing Rest In Peace, a common phrase inscribed on tombstones.
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It was originally a part of Huntington.
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The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, which was modeled after Harper Lee's real hometown of Monroeville Alabama. It takes place during the great Depression, around the early 1930's.
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come  and   visit  dalton  georgia,  the  carpet   capital  of  the   world.  we  are  so   over   run  with   them, the   law   doesnt  do   anything  about  them   here  either.it  pisses  me  off  too.  well  it   really   makes  me   sick.this  used  to  be  a   nice  place  to   live,   not   any   more.
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been trying find this one out myself i have no idea, I reckon somebody had a sense of humor whilst naming those places. but they are cool names.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia article:\n\nThe name of the lake is named after the Erie tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore before European contact.
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I live in Fulton county and do not know any groups of this nature...
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Back then, people went by with ony one name, so Aristotle was his first and only name.  If too many people had the same name, then it was customary to add the city where they were born, or a descriptor, or the father's name, to tell them apart.