North Georgia - Notable North Georgia Locations

Notable North Georgia Locations

  • Helen, Georgia - an old time tourist attraction town modeled on a small hamlet in Bavaria, Germany
  • Unicoi State Park
  • New Echota - former capital of the Cherokee Nation
  • Dahlonega, Georgia - site of the first American gold rush in the 1820s
  • Rome, Georgia
  • Jasper, Georgia - home of the Marble Festival
  • Ellijay, Georgia
  • Blue Ridge, Georgia
  • Blairsville, Georgia - home of the Sorghum Festival
  • Gainesville, Georgia
  • Dalton, Georgia - an important carpet-producing city
  • Athens, Georgia - home of The University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered university in the United States
  • Chickamauga, Georgia
  • LaFayette, Georgia

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