Chickamauga, Georgia Chickamauga, Georgia Georgia State Route 341 in Chickamauga Georgia State Route 341 in Chickamauga Location in Walker County and the state of Georgia Location in Walker County and the state of Georgia Chickamauga is a town/city in Walker County, Georgia, United States.
3.1 Chickamauga City Schools 3.2 Walker County School District 3.3.1 Walker County Alternative Education Center In the early to mid-19th century, the present town of Chickamauga was a large plantation in the rolling hills of north Georgia.
When the Cherokee Nation was divided into districts and courts in 1820, Crawfish Springs was made the capital of the new Chickamauga District.
After the Cherokee removal, the first court in Walker County was held there in the former Cherokee courthouse.
The Lee and Gordon families greatly influenced Chickamauga's post-Cherokee history.
In 1836 Gwinnett County native James Gordon established a plantation at Crawfish Springs and assembled a grist foundry two miles east of town, on Chickamauga Creek.
The Battle of Chickamauga, titled for close-by Chickamauga Creek, was fought on September 19 20, 1863.
Crawfish Springs was the site of an 1889 reunion of veteran soldiers, Northern and Southern, who had fought in the Battle of Chickamauga.
Called the "Blue and Gray Barbecue", hundreds of soldiers and their families visited the sites of the bloody battle from over 25 years before, smoking the pipe of peace, healing the wounds, and helping start the Chickamauga National Park. The Chickamauga Battlefield, established in 1890, is just north of the City of Chickamauga, and is a part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the first and biggest in the country. After passenger service ceased in the 1950s, the town/city schools, library system, and recreation department used the depot.
The Durham Iron and Coal Company assembled coke ovens on Chickamauga's north side, used to transform coal into coke for iron and steel foundries in Chattanooga.
New England native Daniel Ashley Jewell, who had moved to middle Georgia before to the Civil War, assembled a cotton mill.
Jewell and company partner Colonel Bowen bought territory in Chickamauga in 1907 from US Senator Gordon Lee.
Jewell and Bowen also assembled the Crystal Springs Bleachery Company (in 1909). The Crystal Springs Bleachery Company was a primary small-town employer and a momentous player in the evolution of the town.
The town/city is surrounded by the north Georgia mountain peaks and valleys, and the history of the region has been rediscovered and restored wherever possible.
Within a several blocks of the chief shopping precinct are enhance parks and historic sites, including Crawfish Springs Park, Coke Oven Park, and Holland-Watson Veterans Memorial Park.
Several primary Civil War battle sites and exhibitions are near the city: Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park, Lookout Mountain, Lee & Gordon's Mill, Mc - Lemore's Cove, and the Martin-Davis House, on the site of the Battle of Davis's Cross Roads.
Chickamauga City Schools The Chickamauga City School System is a public, tax-funded institution that is open to all students who live inside the town/city limits.
Students who live outside the town/city may also attend, but must pay tuition since they do not contribute tax dollars to the school.
The school precinct holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of an elementary school, middle school and high school. The precinct has 68 full-time teachers and over 1,293 students. Chickamauga Elementary School Gordon Lee Middle School Gordon Lee High School Walker County School District The Walker County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of nine elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools. The precinct has 577 full-time teachers and over 8,844 students. Chattanooga Valley Elementary School Rock Spring Elementary School Chattanooga Valley Middle School The Alternative Education Center in Walker County is positioned in the former Osburn Elementary School.
Lee and Gordon's Mills, one of the earliest mills in the state of Georgia, is positioned about two miles east of the center of town on the west bank of the Chickamauga Creek.
The Walker County Regional Heritage and Model Train Museum is homed in the contemporary train depot building.
The Chickamauga coke ovens are positioned just north of downtown Chickamauga on Highway 341.
The Gordon Lee Mansion was originally the Gordon residence assembled by James Gordon, who began assembly in 1840 and instead of in 1847.
Crawfish Spring, the chief waterworks for the early settlements, and later for the town/city of Chickamauga in the early to mid-20th century, is positioned on Cove Road just south of the chief town and athwart the road from the Gordon Lee Mansion.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2), of which 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2) is territory and 0.55% is water.
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Walker County, Georgia, Heritage, 1833-1983 (La - Fayette, Ga.: Walker County History Committee and Walker County Historical Society, 1984).
, The New Georgia Encyclopedia - Chickamauga Patrick Abbazia, The Chickamauga Campaign: December 1862-November 1863 (New York: Gallery Books, 1988).
, Historic Markers Across Georgia - Crawfish Springs , Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chickamauga Turn School Stats, Retrieved June 3, 2010.
Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 3, 2010.
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