Editing Dade County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Dade County was established in 1837 and was named for Major [[Francis Langhorne Dade]], who was killed in the [[Dade battle|Dade Massacre]] by [[Seminole]] Indians in December 1835.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/d.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030917110647/http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/d.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2003 |url-status=live | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=57 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n97 98]}}</ref> The first settlers of Dade County won the land in the [[Georgia Land Lotteries]], held to encourage settlement after the [[Cherokee people]] were forced off the land. Many settlers worked in regional coke and coal mines that contributed to development of the [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], area.

The area was long isolated by its geography of mountains and rivers, which some historians say contributed to early residents' separatist attitudes. For the first century of Dade County's existence, no road connected it directly to the rest of Georgia, so visitors from elsewhere in the state had to reach it by way of Alabama or Tennessee. That changed in 1939 with the establishment of [[Cloudland Canyon State Park]], and Georgia began work on Highway&nbsp;136 to connect U.S.&nbsp;41 to the recently created park.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2320|title=Dade County|last=Cooksey|first=Elizabeth|year=2009|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council/University of Georgia Press|access-date=July 15, 2009|archive-date=October 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012191202/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2320|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] built many of the facilities and access roads to the park.

Dade County had a short-lived state secessionist movement before the [[American Civil War]]. In 1860, county residents wanted to secede from the Union, but lawmakers for the state of Georgia were cautious. Legend has it that in 1860, the people of Dade County were so impatient that they announced their own secession from both Georgia and the United States.<ref name="Fox News - April 28, 2008 - Forgotten Ga. county now in spotlight over water rights">{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2008Apr28/0,4675,DroughtStateLine,00.html|title=Forgotten Ga. county now in spotlight over water rights|last=Bluestein|first=Greg|date=April 28, 2008|work=[[Fox News]]|publisher=[[Fox Entertainment Group]]|access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref> On July 4, 1945, a telegram from President [[Harry S. Truman]] was read at a celebration marking the county's "rejoining" the Union. Historians say Dade's individual secession and readmission were symbolic and had no legal effect. They say that officially, Dade County seceded along with the state of Georgia in 1861 and re-entered the Union with the state in 1870.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dadesentinel.com/content.aspx?module=ContentItem&ID=174489&MemberID=1338 |title=The Independent State Of Dade Is Fixin' To Rise Again |publisher=Dade County Sentinel |access-date=December 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gadade/resources.htm Coulter, E. Merton. "The Myth of Dade County's Seceding from Georgia in 1860"], Resources at Rootsweb</ref>

The noted Southern [[Humour|humorist]], author and seminal writer of [[Southern literature|Southern humor]] [[George Washington Harris]] (1814–1869) is buried in the Brock Cemetery in Wildwood, GA. Although he greatly influenced the literary works of [[Mark Twain]], [[William Faulkner]],<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Faulkner|first=William|title=The Art of Fiction no. 12: William Faulkner|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4954/the-art-of-fiction-no-12-william-faulkner|magazine=The Paris Review|access-date=December 9, 2012}}</ref> and [[Flannery O'Connor]],<ref name=day1>Donald Day, "The Life of George Washington Harris," ''Tennessee Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 1947), pp. 3-38.</ref> his grave was not verified and given a marker until 2008.

In 1964, [[Covenant College]] established a campus at [[Lookout Mountain]]. Founded in 1955 in California, it was ready to expand after a year. Several professors led Covenant to move to [[St. Louis, Missouri]], where it developed for eight years. After outgrowing its facilities there, the college decided to move to Dade County.

=== Quarter controversy ===
[[File:1999 GA Proof.png|thumb|right|Georgia [[State Quarter]] without Dade County.]]

Shortly after the Georgia [[State Quarter]] was released by the [[US Mint]], Dade County gained attention because of an apparent mistake in the design. As shown on the quarter, the state appears to lack Dade County, in the extreme northwestern part of the state. Some accounts in 2012 suggest the exclusion was intended to refer to the local legend of Dade County's secession from Georgia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.valuable-coin-stories.com/georgia-quarters.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122105203/http://www.valuable-coin-stories.com/georgia-quarters.html|archive-date=November 22, 2012 |title=Georgia quarters are really quite peachy, but not in Dade County |publisher=Valuable-coin-stories.com |access-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref>