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LaFayette (/ l ʌ ˈ f eɪ ɛ t / luh-FAY-et) is a city in, and the county seat of, Walker County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 6,888. It was founded as Chattooga. LaFayette is part of the Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway (reporting mark CCKY) is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia, USA.The railroad operated 22 miles (35 km) of the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (a.k.a. the TAG route) from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Kensington, Georgia, which reverted to the Norfolk Southern System and was partially removed after the Dow Reichhold ...
Walker County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,654, [1] down from 68,756 in 2010. [2] The county seat is LaFayette. [3]
The Chattooga Academy, also known as John B. Gordon Hall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It is a two-story red brick Federal-style building. It was the site of the Battle of LaFayette during the American Civil War. [2] It had 15 boys and 37 girls as students in 1838; students boarded in the homes of families nearby.
Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, Georgia was founded on August 12, 1835, as Ebenezer Church in the town then named Chattooga, Georgia, the county seat of Walker County, Georgia.
Mr. Marsh was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, on November 25, 1799, and was the son of William Marsh, a soldier in the American Revolution for whom the William Marsh chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (in La Fayette, Georgia) is named. About 1835, Marsh moved his family to "Chattooga," Georgia.
A county budget meeting in Chattooga County, Ga., took a turn on Friday when the wife of a commissioner stormed in and dumped a soda on a reporter's head.
Chattooga County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,965. [1] The county seat is Summerville. [2] The county was created on December 28, 1838.