Blue Ridge, Georgia Blue Ridge, Georgia Downtown Blue Ridge Downtown Blue Ridge Location in Fannin County and the state of Georgia Location in Fannin County and the state of Georgia County Fannin Blue Ridge is a town/city in Fannin County, Georgia, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 1,290. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Fannin County. 4.1 Fannin County School District The Cherokee citizens controlled the region today known as Fannin County when the first white settlements appeared.
Unlike much of the rest of Georgia, Fannin County's first pioneer did not come from the east, but from the north.
Crossing the Appalachian Mountains to Fort Loudoun (now Tennessee), the first pioneer followed the Tennessee River south, where they took the Ocoee-Toccoa River to the wide, fertile river valley that separates the Cohuttas and the Blue Ridge Mountains in Fannin County.
Fannin County was created in 1854 from portions of Union County and Gilmer, with Morganton as the first county seat.
James Fannin, for whom the county is named, was a hero in the Texas War for Independence.
According to historic records at the County Historic Cabin near Blue Ridge about early company in Fannin, Appalachian farmers in this region interval products that had to be taken to a foundry and "cracked" before use, hence the term "cracker" was incessantly applied to them.
Agriculture, and the businesses supporting it, have been a mainstay of the Fannin County economy since its earliest days.
The Marietta and North Georgia Railroad made an economic decision to avoid Fannin's county seat, Morganton, instead building the barns through the long, mostly flat Toccoa River valley.
Mike Mc - Kinney established the town of Blue Ridge in 1886 along the route of the barns .
When the barns appeared in Fannin County, it gave the county a market for its agricultural products.
Tourism picked up with the culmination of the barns to Blue Ridge, but this boon was short-lived.
In the 1950s, tourism surged again in the county.
Much of the territory in Fannin County is under management of the U.S.
Beginning as the Cherokee and later the Georgia National Forest, today's Chattahoochee National Forest is a gem in the crown of Fannin County.
The town/city of Blue Ridge is positioned south of the center of Fannin County at 34 52 6 N 84 19 16 W (34.868344, -84.320991). The town/city sits on the divide between the Tennessee River watershed to the north (via the Toccoa River) and the Alabama River to the south (via Crooked Log Creek, the Ellijay River, and a several downstream rivers).
Georgia State Route 5 leads north from Blue Ridge 10 miles (16 km) to Mc - Caysville at the Tennessee line.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2), all land. Climate data for Blue Ridge, Georgia As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 1,290 citizens residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.3% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Fannin County School District The Fannin County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The precinct has 179 full-time teachers and more than 3,212 students. Blue Ridge Elementary School East Fannin Elementary School West Fannin Elementary School Fannin County Middle School Fannin County High School Lake Blue Ridge Chipper Jones, MLB player for the Atlanta Braves, has a home in Blue Ridge.
National Association of Counties.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Blue Ridge city, Georgia".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Georgia Board of Education[permanent dead link], Retrieved June 9, 2010.
School Stats, Retrieved June 9, 2010.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Blue Ridge (Georgia).
City of Blue Ridge official website Fannin County Chamber of Commerce Blue Ridge Scenic Railway Municipalities and communities of Fannin County, Georgia, United States
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