Dalton, Georgia Dalton, Georgia City of Dalton Downtown Dalton Downtown Dalton Location in Whitfield County and the state of Georgia Location in Whitfield County and the state of Georgia Dalton, Georgia is positioned in the US Dalton, Georgia - Dalton, Georgia Dalton is a town/city in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Whitfield County and the principal town/city of the Dalton, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Murray and Whitfield counties.
Dalton is positioned just off Interstate 75 in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest Georgia and is the second biggest city in northwest Georgia, after Rome.
Dalton is home to many of the nation's floor-covering manufacturers, primarily those producing carpet, rugs and vinyl flooring.
Like most suburbs that predate the Civil War, Dalton and the encircling area saw skirmishes amid the conflict.
It is home to the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center, which showcases the Georgia Athletic Coaches' Hall of Fame and hosts a range of affairs.
From June 2011 to June 2012 as carpet mills that had working thousands restructured, downsized, cut back productivity and closed, Dalton lost 4,600 jobs as stated to the U.S.
8.1 Dalton City School District 8.2 Whitfield County School District A picture of The Dalton Convention Center Dalton Convention Center Dalton is positioned at (34.771088, -84.971553). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.8 square miles (51 km2), of which 19.8 square miles (51 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.10%) is water.
According to the 2010 census Dalton had a populace of 33,128 living in 11,337 homeholds.
By 2010 48% of Dalton's 33,000 inhabitants were Latino. During the late 1980s economic boom when demand for carpet foundry laborers reached an all-time high the 320 carpet mills aggressively recruited Latino workers. Presidential elections results in the City of Dalton Dalton has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa), with hot, humid summers, and mild to cool winters, and straddles the border between USDA Hardiness Zones 7 - B and 8 - A. The monthly daily mean temperature ranges from 40.1 F (4.5 C) in January to 79.0 F (26.1 C) in July; on average, there are 41 days of 90 F (32 C)+ highs, 2.7 days where the high fails to reach above freezing, and 10.7 evenings where the low falls to or below 20 F ( 7 C) annually, with 100 F (38 C) a much rarer occurrence.
Climate data for Dalton, Georgia (1981 2010 normals) The Creative Arts Guild is the earliest multi-disciplinary improve arts center in the state of Georgia.
Founded in 1963 by a group of civic leaders, the Creative Arts Guild began as a improve grass-roots boss originally homed in the Old Firehouse on Pentz Street in historic Downtown Dalton.
Artistic Civic Theatre has served the Northwest Georgia improve for twenty-four years, and has reached thousands of people through primary musical, comedy, and drama productions, ACT2 (the children's wing), student productions in cooperation with schools in Dalton, Whitfield, and Murray counties, touring productions of initial adaptations of classic fairy tales, theatrical arts classes co-sponsored with the Creative Arts Guild, the annual Youth Theatre Camp, and the Studio Cabaret live music series.
Dalton Little Theatre Dalton Little Theatre held its first documented performance in 1869.
The organization began as the Dalton Amateurs, and continued as the Sophoclean Dramatic Club, and the Dalton Players, before becoming Dalton Little Theatre in 1955.
The Firehouse Theatre is often referred to as the Old Dalton Firehouse and it remains the home of Dalton Little Theatre to this day. 1000 Words Dalton Public Art Project The Downtown Dalton Development Authority hosts a number of affairs throughout the year, including the Downtown Dalton Farmers Market (May August), a Downtown Sampler, and an annual Beer Festival.
The Dalton Area Convention & Visitors Bureau partners with the DDDA to host the Downtown Dalton Summer Concert Series, featuring small-town bands.
Woodland Indians and Creek Nation held the region of present-day Dalton, Georgia until the mid-18th century, when the Cherokee pushed the Creek to the west and south.
In 1847, Dalton was defined as a mile radius from the town/city center, the Western and Atlantic Depot.
The bedspread company booned to a multimillion-dollar trade by the 1950s, and from this early origin, the carpet tufting trade interval in Dalton after Glenn Looper advanced an adaptation that allowed the mechanism used to tuft yarn into muslin or cotton for bedspreads to tuft into jute, shifting the nation's carpet manufacturers from woven wool products in the northeast to tufted synthetic carpets in northwest Georgia.
Dalton, was titled for General Tristram Dalton of Massachusetts. Johnston in Downtown Dalton, GA.
During the Civil War, Dalton saw its first action amid the Great Locomotive Chase, on April 12, 1862.
More than a year later, on September 19 20, 1863, massive Union and Confederate forces battled a several miles west of Dalton at Chickamauga, and later at Chattanooga.
The First Battle of Dalton encompassed the battle of Rocky Face Ridge and Dug Gap began on May 7, 1864, and ended when General Johnston instead of his withdrawal from Dalton on May 12.
Government recently declared Dalton and Whitfield County to have more endured Civil War artifacts than any other place in the country. Also of interest is the site of the historic Western & Atlantic Railroad Station; one of the several still standing and restored to its initial architectural state, this site is now the Dalton Depot Restaurant.
The steel center marker for the initial surveying of the town/city of Dalton is still inside the depot. Dalton is often referred to as the "Carpet Capital of the World," home to 150+ carpet plants.
The agglomeration of the carpet trade in Dalton can be traced back to a t given in 1895 by a teenage girl, Catherine Evans Whitener, to her brother, Henry Alexander Evans, and his bride, Elizabeth Cramer.
Chenille bedspreads became prominent all over the nation and provided a new name for Dalton: the Bedspread Capital of the World. When a form of mechanized carpet making was advanced after World War II, Dalton became the center of the new trade because specialized tufting skills were required and the town/city had a ready pool of workers with those skills. Improved patterning, stain and wear resistance, and colors have made today's[when?] tufted carpet the choice for functional carpet for the vast majority of homes, and moved woven carpet to a decorative part . Dalton's carpet manufacturing has taken up to one-third of the Conasauga River summer water flow.
The river and town/city waterworks has been contaminated with perfluorinated compounds used to make carpets stain-resistant. Dalton Utilities' has processed wastewater using a territory application system, that spread effluent on more than nine thousand forested acres in an region called Looper's Bend.
Dalton City School District The Dalton City School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of six elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and an alternative school. The precinct has 366 full-time teachers and over 5,739 students. City Park Elementary School Dalton Middle School Dalton High School Whitfield County School District The Whitfield County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of thirteen elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools, an alternative school, and a charter school. The precinct has 777 full-time teachers and over 12,190 students. Bell fortress at Dalton State College.
Dalton State College Bell Tower.
Northwest Whitfield County High School Southeast Whitfield County High School Dalton State College - Main Campus "Dalton (city) Quick - Facts from the US Enumeration Bureau".
2010 general profile of populace and housing characteristics of Dalton from the US census a b Valencia, =Nick; Tripp, Leslie (December 12, 2011), "After Latino boom, Georgia town's populace shifts again", CNN, retrieved March 30, 2016 Dalton Little Theatre.
1000 Words Dalton Public Art Project.
"Dalton Events".
"Dalton: Carpet Capital of the World".
"Whitfield, Dalton City".
School Stats, Retrieved June 6, 2010.
Dalton State College, Retrieved June 6, 2010.
Martin, Mariann: "Dalton renews ties to Sister City" Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Dalton, Georgia.
Roadside Georgia: Dalton History of Dalton, Georgia Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau Information on the history of Dalton and the carpet industry, attractions, affairs, restaurants and places to stay City of Dalton Dalton: Carpet Capital of the World Dalton State College Municipalities and communities of Whitfield County, Georgia, United States
Categories:
Dalton, Georgia - Cities in Georgia (U.S.
State)Cities in Whitfield County, Georgia - County seats in Georgia (U.S.
|