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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. Up until that time
the only way the county could be accessed was
through Alabama and Tennessee. |
