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Blue Ridge is the home of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, a restored railroad that features a four-hour, 26 mile roundtrip journey along the Toccoa River to the sister towns McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee. [8] The original tracks started in Marietta, Georgia, and reached Blue Ridge and the surrounding areas in 1886.
Blue Ridge is the county seat Fannin County was founded on January 12, 1854, taken from 396 square miles that were previously part of Gilmer and Union counties. [ 3 ] The county is named for Georgia native James W. Fannin , [ 4 ] who fought and died during the Texas Revolution .
The Fannin County Courthouse, built in 1937, is an historic courthouse building located in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States.It was designed by Atlanta-based architect William Augustus Edwards who designed one other courthouse in Georgia, two in Florida and nine in South Carolina well as academic buildings at 12 institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. [3]
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]
Blue Ridge Lake is a reservoir in Fannin County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. The reservoir encompasses 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) of water, and a "full summer pool" of approximately 1,686 feet (514 m) above mean sea level .
The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in northern Georgia. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its Twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad, which also ...
The Blue Ridge consists primarily of metamorphic rocks, which are the metamorphosed equivalents of sedimentary rocks or igneous rocks. The geological Blue Ridge is commonly divided by geologists into the western Blue Ridge and equivalent Talladega belt (Alabama and western Georgia), central Blue Ridge (northernmost Georgia), and eastern Blue ...
James W. Baugh Homeplace is a former residence in Blue Ridge, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, [1] at which time it was the Baugh House Museum. It is located at 411 West First Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513. It was deemed significant as a "rare two-story masonry I-house residence with Folk Victorian style ...