Chattooga County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia.

With the onset of European settlers and after gold was discovered in northern Georgia, the federal government forcibly removed the Cherokees to Oklahoma from Chattooga county in the early 1830s in what has become known as " the Trail Of Tears.

The city is the county seat of Chattooga County.

Since May 10, 1974, the Chattooga River has been protected along a corridor as a national Wild and Scenic River.

The East Fork Chattooga River ( sometimes East Prong Chattooga River ) runs in from Jackson County, North Carolina and then Oconee County, South Carolina, and is long.

It then continues up the Tugaloo ( originally Tugalo ) and into the Chattooga River, its most significant tributary.

The Chattooga, Horsepasture, and Toxaway rivers all originate or flow through the township.

According to his journal entries for May, 1775, Bartram crossed the Chattooga River into Georgia near its confluence with Warwoman Creek.

It is named for the Chattooga River, which flows through it.

The principle Cherokee towns in Chattooga were Rivertown ( Trion ) and Broomtown in Shinbone valley.

The Lottery transformed Chattooga into a thriving agricultural area in the antebellum South with farms of varying size dotting the fertile landscape of the Chattooga Valley.

Confederate armies received five regiments from Chattooga.

The largest single engagement in Chattooga was the " Battle of Trion Factory ," fought on Sept. 15th, 1863 on present day First Street near the site of the East Trion Church of God.

In September 2009, the Chattooga County Camp 507, Sons of Confederate Veterans in conjunction with the Missionary Ridge Camp 63 Sons of Union Veterans, and several local groups erected a memorial monument to remember the " First Battle of Trion Factory " and the soldiers who are buried in unmarked graves at Trion.

General Hood's army passed through Chattooga County in September 1864 en route to Gaylesville, Alabama.

General Sherman reportedly stated upon first seeing the Chattooga Valley from atop Taylors Ridge that it " is a good fertile valley suitable for agriculture.

Reportedly, every road leading out of Chattooga to the west was filled with retreating Confederates.

General Sherman telegraphed General Henry Halleck and president Abraham Lincoln from Summerville to outline his plan for the " March to the Sea ," making Chattooga County the birthplace of his march.

Chattooga County is a Democratic stronghold in Northwest Georgia.

While most counties in Northwest Georgia vote heavily Republican on the local, state, and national levels, Chattooga is still a Democratic County.

Former educator and community leader Barbara Massey-Reece ( D-Menlo ) represents the district, which includes all of Chattooga and parts of Floyd County, in the State House of Representatives.

Chattooga County is served by a vast array of public offices.

The county's school board, under Chattooga County School's Superintendent Jimmy Lenderman, oversees four elementary schools: Leroy Massey Elementary, Menlo School, Lyerly School, and Summerville Elementary, one middle school, Summerville Middle, and one high school, Chattooga County High School.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

-- After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the `` coolest election I ever saw in this county ''.

-- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more question about who said what.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

This system has three tiers, with 12 county administrative courts ( förvaltningsrätt ) as the first tier, four administrative courts of appeal ( kammarrätt ) as the second tier, and the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden ( Regeringsrätten ) as the third tier.

Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide cellular telephone system and an extensive network of telephone cables.

The School also has one of the largest sixth forms in the county.

The area of the county no longer has a single local authority ; local government is now split between three authorities.

The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The word " county " has come to be used in different senses for different purposes.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

The county board of commissioners controls the budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 97. 63 %) is land and ( or 2. 37 %) is water.

He has also played county cricket in England, mainly for Lancashire ( 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 ) where he appeared in twenty-eight first-class games for the club.

Nashville has a consolidated city – county government which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system.

This was previously thought to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent work has convinced those working in the field that Moray ( a name referring to a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray ), was the core of Fortriu.