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Dawsonville is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, [4] Georgia, United States. The population was 3,720 in 2020. Dawsonville is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan statistical area. The city head is Mayor John Walden, who was sworn in on December 18, 2023. [5]
The Chestatee Regional Library System was first founded in 1953 as a two-county regional library system serving the communities of Hall and Lumpkin Counties. In 1994, in an effort to mutually expand the resources of their libraries, Dawson County joined with Hall and Lumpkin to make the library system a tri-county consortium.
In December 1827, Georgia had already claimed the Cherokee lands that became Gordon County and other counties. A small town called "Dawsonville" was created and founded in Gordon County, named for the owner of an early general store. [8] Dawsonville was later renamed "Calhoun" to honor U.S. Senator John C. Calhoun, [9] following his death in 1850.
Dawson County is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,798 up from 22,330 in 2010. [2] [1] The county seat is Dawsonville.
Chestatee is an unincorporated community in northeastern Forsyth County, [1] Georgia, United States, due west of the confluence of the Chestatee River into the Chattahoochee River. Originally a Cherokee settlement, it was called Atsunsta Ti Yi .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. City in the United States Not to be confused with Dawson County, Georgia or Dawsonville, Georgia. City in Georgia, United States Dawson, Georgia City Dawson City Hall Location in Terrell County and the state of Georgia Coordinates: 31°46′26″N 84°26′27″W / 31.77389°N ...
Thompson Creek rises in eastern Dawson County, just west of U.S. Route 19/State Route 400 and just north of State Route 53, and southeast of Dawsonville. [2] The creek heads southeast for less than a half a mile, then crosses US 19/SR 400 and heads south along the highway, before turning east and forming the Thompson Creek arm of Lake Lanier ...
Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time.