Gore, Georgia

Gore is an unincorporated community in Chattooga County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.[1]

History

An early variant name was "Mt. Hickory".[2] William Gore, the first postmaster, gave the community its present name.[3] A post office was established at Gore in 1884, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1953.[4]

gollark: ++remind 22w inodes?
gollark: It's something or other from the matrix, so I would imagine that lots of people picked it.
gollark: I mostly don't directly DM people.
gollark: Was this before filesystem quotas were invented or something?
gollark: Why have separate things for source and object files and var and usr and X11? Why have /tmp ondisk?

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gore, Georgia
  2. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
  3. "Chattooga County". Calhoun Times. September 1, 2004. p. 37. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. "Chattooga County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 25 April 2015.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.