Vidalia, Georgia Vidalia, Georgia City of Vidalia Vidalia Municipal Building (City Hall) Vidalia Municipal Building (City Hall) Location in Toombs County and the state of Georgia Location in Toombs County and the state of Georgia Website The City of Vidalia, Georgia Vidalia (/va de lj / vye-dayl-y or small-town /va de j / vye-day-y ) is a town/city located primarily in Toombs County, Georgia, United States.
The town/city also extends very slightly into Montgomery County. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 10,473.
Vidalia is the principal town/city of the Vidalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan region that covers Montgomery and Toombs Counties, and had a combined populace of 36,346 at the 2010 census. The town was incorporated on January 1, 1890. It is the biggest city in Toombs County, but it is not the county seat. Although a Georgia website suggests the town may have been titled "via dalia" ("road of dahlias"), it may have been titled like Vidalia, Louisiana with respect to Don Jose Vidal, a Spanish aristocrat.
Like many suburbs in the region, Vidalia interval up around a rail yard that served farmers in the region who interval such crops as pecans and tobacco.
At that time, Vidalia served as an interchange junction between the Central of Georgia and the Georgia and Florida (later both Southern barns s).
Currently, the biggest employers in Vidalia are Trane who has a large assembly plant and Wal-Mart which is rumored to be positioned on the former farm where the Vidalia sweet onions were first grown. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.4 square miles (45 km2), of which 17.3 square miles (45 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.63%) is water.
Vidalia (left) and Vidalia Regional Airport (right).
As of the census of 2000, there were 10,491 citizens , 4,167 homeholds, and 2,758 families residing in the city; of these, 160 citizens lived in Montgomery and the rest in Toombs counties.
Since 1931, Granex onions grown in and near Vidalia have been licensed and sold internationally as Vidalia onions.
In 1986, the Vidalia Onion Trademark Act granted a state trademark and protection on the onions of the Vidalia and Toombs County area.
The 1989 Federal Marketing Order #955 of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service gave the growers and handlers the legal rights to establish the Vidalia Onion Committee, and it granted U.S.
Vidalia is best known for its "sweet" onions.
The Vidalia onion was first produced about 1931 when a farmer titled Mose Coleman identified that the onions he produced were sweeter than other onions.
Other farmers started burgeoning the same crop, and in the 1940s the Vidalia onion became an item sold to tourists.
Vidalia onion growers have protected their brand, and today all onions labelled Vidalia must be grown in one of thirteen different counties in Georgia or in specific portions of seven other counties.
In 1990, the Vidalia onion was titled as the official vegetable of the state of Georgia.
(See: Vidalia Onion and Protection as a Geographic Indication) Each spring Vidalia holds a world-famous Onion Festival.
Vidalia Public Schools are part of the Vidalia City School District.
Vidalia Comprehensive High School Although it has never been officially confirmed, it is believed by locals that the 1996 song Vidalia sung by Sammy Kershaw alludes to the Vidalia Sweet Onion crop with its lyrics "...sweet Vidalia, You always gotta make me cry!" While uncertainty remains about the song, Vidalia sweet onions have recently made a name for the town through nationwide media and the Onions and Ogres advertisement campaign which features the cartoon ogre Shrek.
"The City of Vidalia, Georgia".
The City of Vidalia, Georgia.
"Profile for Vidalia, Georgia, GA".
The Vidalia Onion Committee.
'Vidalia onions aren't just the most famous onions in the world; I think they may be the only famous onions in the world.' Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vidalia, Georgia.
City of Vidalia entry from the State of Georgia government portal The Official Vidalia Onion Website: Recipes, Information & Links Municipalities and communities of Montgomery County, Georgia, United States Municipalities and communities of Toombs County, Georgia, United States state)Cities in Montgomery County, Georgia - Cities in Toombs County, Georgia - Vidalia, Georgia, micropolitan area
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