Name derivation: Named in honor of Francis Langhorne Dade, who was killed during an ambush of his company by Seminole Indians.
Acquisition:cTreaty of New Echota
Taken from: Walker County, Georgia
Counties created from: None
Cities: Trenton (county seat), Rising Fawn

Web sites: National Register of Historic Places in Dade County, Georgia
Archives of Dade County, Georgia
Dade County, Georgia, links


Description and history: This northwest Georgia county is among the smallest in the state, and until a roadbuilding program connected it via Stevens Gap in 1939, you had to go through Tennessee and Alabama to get there. Known as "State of Dade," a local politician threatened to secede from Georgia if the state seceded from the county.