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Chattooga County, Georgia
Hamlets, Villages and Settlements  


Gore,
a small village in Chattooga county, is about five miles east of Summerville, which is the nearest railroad station.  It has a money order post office and is a trading center for the neighborhood. 
(Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. VOL III Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Marilyn Clore)

Holland, a post-hamlet of Chattooga county, is also a station on the Central of Georgia railroad about fourteen miles northwest from Rome.
(Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)

Kincaid, a post-village in the southern part of Chattooga county, is near the western base of Simms mountain and a short distance east of the Central of Georgia railway.
(Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister)

 Lyerly, a town in the southwestern part of Chattooga county, was incorporated by act of the legislature on Sept. 29, 1891.  It is located in the valley of the Chattooga river, at the junction of two branches of the Central of Georgia railway system, and in 1900 reported a population of 234 in the town and 729 in the district.  It has a money order postoffice, telegraph and express service, a chair factory, a large flour mill, some good stores, schools and churches and does a large shipping business.
(Source: Georgia
Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Joanne Morgan)






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