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Dade County, Georgia                         A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Dade County, Georgia. This County is available for adoption. Our goal at Genealogy Trails is to help you track your ancestors through time and place by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This is a continuation of our original, Illinois Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy Project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as our Illinois websites are. If you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and instructions on signing up.. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists Dade County was established in 1837 and was named for Major Francis Langhorne Dade, who was killed in the Dade Massacre by Seminole Indians in December, 1835. The first settlers of Dade County won the land in Georgia's land lottery and came to work in coke and coal mines. Georgia did not have a road connecting to Dade County until the purchase of Cloudland Canyon in 1939. The county could only be accessed through Alabama and Tennessee until then. The county seat is Trenton, Georgia Cities and towns New England Rising Fawn Trenton Wildwood Only the links in color are active. EMail Us Newspaper Data Marriages Census Misc Wills History Biographies Military Cemeteries           Website updates: Adjacent Counties Marion County, Tennessee (north) Hamilton County, Tennessee (northeast) Walker County (southeast) DeKalb County, Alabama (southwest) Jackson County, Alabama (west) If you think you might be interested in hosting one of the above counties, you can read the Volunteer Information page Here ~ Please Report Broken Links ~ Visit our National Genealogy Trails Website Copyright © 2007 by Genealogy Trails - Contributors retain all copyrights.