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    Ellijay, occasionally spelled Elijay, is a city in Gilmer County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,862 at the 2020 census. The city is the...
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    East Ellijay is a city in Gilmer County, Georgia, United States. The population was 546 at the 2010 census, down from 707 in 2000. East Ellijay was originally...
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  • The Ellijay River is a 15.1-mile-long (24.3 km) river in Georgia. It ends in the town of Ellijay at its confluence with the Cartecay River, forming the...
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    Cherokee towns were located along the Cullasaja River. The town of Ellijay was on Ellijay Creek, a tributary of Cullasaja River. Several Cherokee towns were...
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  • Thumbnail for Gilmer County, Georgia
    As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,353. The county seat is Ellijay. named for a historic Cherokee town also spelled as Elejoy in the eighteenth...
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    investor and board member of two Georgia banks. One of these banks, Bank of Ellijay, failed in September 2010 and was taken over by regulators at a cost of...
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    the north near Talking Rock on their way into Gilmer County and Ellijay. In East Ellijay, SR 5 picks up a concurrency with US 76/SR 2, and heads northeast...
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    Recreation Area. The mountain is located about 17 miles (27 km) east of Ellijay, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Dahlonega and 11 miles (18 km) southwest...
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    runs into Ellijay, Georgia, in Gilmer County. It is the site of a class II whitewater run. The Cartecay and Ellijay rivers meet in Ellijay to form the...
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  • Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Ellijay River. Turniptown is an English translation of the native Cherokee language...
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    515 bypass the city to its west. GA-5/515 lead north 21 mi (34 km) to Ellijay and south 60 mi (97 km) to Atlanta, via its connection with Interstate...
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  • several names since it was chartered in 1854: Ellijay Railroad, changing name to Marietta, Canton and Ellijay Railroad, changing name to Marietta and North...
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    River) and the Alabama River to the south (via Crooked Log Creek, the Ellijay River, and several downstream rivers). U.S. Route 76 and Georgia State...
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    September 12, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020. "Ku Klux Klan Rallies In Ellijay, GA – Condemns Homosexuals, Illegal Immigrants, Black Americans and Others"...
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  • Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Ellijay River. Boardtown Creek took its name from an American Indian village which...
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    river is noted as beginning at the confluence of the Ellijay and Cartecay rivers in the city of Ellijay in central Gilmer County. The river flows west through...
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    its shore. This lake is fed by the Coosawattee River that runs between Ellijay and Chatsworth, and was formed by Carters Dam, the tallest earthen dam...
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    River, Tugalo River, Oostanaula River, Coosawattee River, Cartecay River, Ellijay River, Conasauga River, Toccoa River, Sweetwater Creek, upper Tallapoosa...
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    embankment dam located south of Chatsworth in Murray County and west of Ellijay in northwestern Georgia, United States, that creates Carters Lake. The...
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    A Murphy USA gas station in Ellijay, Georgia, in 2023...
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  • incorporated in 1854 as the Ellijay Railroad after the town of Ellijay, Georgia, it was renamed the Marietta, Canton & Ellijay Railroad, and finally the...
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    travels through North Georgia and connects Ringgold, Dalton, Chatsworth, Ellijay, Blue Ridge, Blairsville, and Clayton. Most of the highway is part of the...
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    At the time, it was numbered as SR 5 from Nelson to Ellijay, SR 2 and possibly 5 from Ellijay to Blue Ridge, and SR 2 from Blue Ridge to the Young Harris...
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  • Veterans Memorial Park The route for the 2019 BRAG began Saturday, June 1 in Ellijay, GA and ended on Saturday, June 8 in Darien, GA. Riders stopped overnight...
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  • collaborated during 1942–1978. Lonzo Anderson was born on March 1, 1905, near Ellijay, Georgia, as the only child: 16  of mother Adella (Brown) Anderson. His...
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    part of the state. It also travels through Fort Oglethorpe, Ringgold, Ellijay, Blue Ridge, Blairsville, and Hiawassee. Parts of the highway in the Whitfield...
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  • The Georgia Apple Festival is an annual festival in Ellijay, Georgia. The festival has been held every October since 1971 and offers handmade crafts,...
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    Alan Creek Conasauga River Jacks River Coosawattee River Cartecay River Ellijay River Tallapoosa River Little Tallapoosa River Mississippi River Ohio River...
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    west of the city as a four-lane highway, leading north 15 mi (24 km) to Ellijay and southeast 6 mi (10 km) to Jasper, the Pickens County seat. Atlanta...
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    90/sq mi (787.61/km2) 1,079,105 529 sq mi (1,370 km2) Gilmer County 123 Ellijay 1832 Cherokee County George Rockingham Gilmer (1780–1859), 16th governor...
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