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Blue Ridge is a city in Fannin County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 1,290.〔http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_SF1_GCTP2.ST13&prodType=table〕 The city is the county seat of Fannin County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 ==History== Cherokee Indians controlled the area today known as Fannin County when the first white settlements appeared. Unlike much of the rest of Georgia, Fannin County's first settlers did not come from the east, but from the north. Written accounts date these earliest settlements to 1790. Crossing the Appalachian Mountains to Fort Loudon (now Tennessee), the first settlers followed the Tennessee River south, where they took the Ocoee-Toccoa to the wide, fertile river valley that separates the Cohuttas and the Blue Ridge Mountains in Fannin County. Coastal Georgians began to push the Cherokee farther west and this land was surrendered by the Cherokee in 1835, under the terms of the Treaty of New Echota. In 1838 the Cherokee were forced to leave in a travesty today known as the Trail of Tears. Fannin County was created in 1854 from portions of Union County and Gilmer County, with Morganton as the first county seat. Col. James Fannin, for whom the county is named, was a hero in the Texas War for Independence. Ordered by Sam Houston to pull back from a fortified position in Goliad, Fannin was surrounded by forces under the command of Gen. José de Urrea in the battle of Coleto. Fannin surrendered his force of about 400 men, who later were massacred. According to historic records at the County Historic Cabin near Blue Ridge about early business in Fannin, Appalachian farmers in this area grew products that had to be taken to a mill and "cracked" before use, hence the term "cracker" was frequently applied to them. Agriculture, and the businesses supporting it, have been a mainstay of the Fannin County economy since its earliest days. A push for diversification at the start of the twentieth century greatly expanded the types of crops raised. From the mid-1800s until the start of the nineteenth century, mining also contributed to the economy, as did lumber from 1900 until World War II. The Marietta and North Georgia Railroad made an economic decision to avoid Fannin's county seat, Morganton, instead building the railroad through the long, relatively flat Toccoa River Valley. Col. Mike McKinney founded the town of Blue Ridge in 1886 along the route of the railroad. When the railroad arrived in Fannin County it gave the county a market for its agricultural products. What had taken days to deliver now took hours. In the early 1920s construction began on U.S. Highway 76, further increasing access to this once remote area. Tourism picked up with the completion of the railroad to Blue Ridge, but this boon was short-lived. In the 1950s, tourism surged again in the county. With the completion of the Georgia Mountain Parkway in 1986 this trickle became a flood. Much of the land in Fannin County is under Forest Service management. Beginning as the Cherokee and later the Georgia National Forest, today's Chattahoochee National Forest is a gem in the crown of Fannin County. Managed for use by all Americans, the land creates jobs, offers recreational opportunities, and preserves ecologically sensitive areas from overuse.〔http://www.blueridgemountains.com/history.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blue Ridge, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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