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Nity in the Northwest Section of the County Is Located E EAGLE CLIFF, Walker County. This commu- tanaula Creek). Some old spellings have been nity in the northwest section of the county is ESTANOLA, EASTANOLA, EASTANOLEE, located about one mile east of EAGLE CLIFFS and EASTINAULEE. where eagles once established their aeries. EASTERTOY, Rabun County. This was an EAGLE TAVERN, Watkinsville. May have old Cherokee Indian town, thought to have been originally been a fort (see Fort Edward(s). This located in the vicinity of the present Dillard. structure was operated as a hotel from 1801 The meaning of this Cherokee name is unknown, to about 1930, and is now preserved as a historic and has been written variously at other places site. as ESTATOWTH, ESTOTOWEE, ESTATOE, etc. EAST JULIETTE, Jones County. Incorporated as a town August 11, 1924 to July 1, 1995. This was originally a railroad settlement on the opposite side of the Ocmulgee River from Juliette (q.v.). East Juliette was at one time known as GLOVERS after Dr. W.P. Glover who inherited the property here. EARLY COUNTY. Created December 15, EAST LAKE, DeKalb County. Incorporated 1818 with 526 square miles acquired by Creek August 14, 1908. This community was named cession of August 9, 1814. This was an original from the lake on the property of the Atlanta county, named for judge, congressman, and Athletic Club, which is so called due to the fact the tenth governor of Georgia, Peter Early that it lies east of Atlanta. ' (1773-1817), a native of Virginia. The county seat is Blakely (q.v.). See also Fort Early. EASTMAN, CS Dodge County. "Candy Capital of Georgia" Incorporated as a city August 22, EASLEY'S COWPENS, Walton County. See 1905. Settled in 1840 and originally known as Cowpens. STATION NO. 13. Named for William Pitt Eastman, an early settler who arrived here in EASTAHATCHEE CREEK, Decatur County. 1870 from New Hampshire. Has also been spelled EASTERHATCHE and ESTAHATCHEE. The name is of Muskogee EAST POINT, Fulton County. Called "The origin, from itsi, "people," plus hachi, "stream," City of Homes and Industry" and "Georgia's perhaps because of an early Indian settlement 7th Largest City." Incorporated August 10, 1887. along its banks. It is now known as SANBORN Was given this name when it was the eastern CREEK (q.v.). terminus of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. EASTANOL(L)EE, Stephens County. Located EASTVILLE, Oconee County. Incorporated about four miles northwest of Avalon, this as a town August 20, 1906 to July 1, 1995, and community was named for the stream which named for Silias East (1796-1868). flows by it. EATONTON, CS Putnam County. Was made EASTANOLEE CREEK. Flows eastward county seat in 1808 and incorporated as a town through Stephens and Franklin counties, empty- December 12, 1809. Named for diplomat and ing into Hartwell Reservoir. The community general, William Eaton (1768-1811) of of EASTANOLLEE in Stephens County was Connecticut. This is the birthplace of writers, settled in the late 1700's. The name is a variation Alice Walker and Joel Chandler Harris (see of OOSTANAULA (for derivation, see Oos- also Uncle Remus Route). Georgia Place-Names 69 Echols County EBENEZAR, Schley County. This community on the campus of the former Tift College (q.v.). lies five miles southwest of Ellaville. The name The site was purchased in 1994 by Dr. Florence is a variation of Ebenezer (q.v.). Alexander from Mercer University for an opening in the fall of 1995. The name ebon is EBENEZER, Effingham County. This old a word from the west African country of Sierra settlement, later referred to as OLD EBENEZ- Leone meaning "excellence." ER, was established by the Lutheran Salzburgers from Germany in 1734. It was located about ECHACONNA, Bibb County. This community four miles below the present town of Spring- had one of the earliest post offices in the county. field, near EBENEZER CREEK, which was The name is a variation of Echeconnee (see named for this early community. The Salzbur- Echeconnee Creek). gers chose the site and here set up a stone they called Ebenezer, which means in German, ECHECONNEE, Houston County Pronounced "Stone of Help." It was named this in commem- "Eechy-conny." This old community is located oration of their final deliverance from their at the junction of Bibb, Peach and Houston enemies, and primarily the bigotry of the counties. Was named from the nearby stream. Archbishop of Salzburg. NEW EBENEZER was established nearby after the original location ECHECONNEE CREEK. Called "Itchy had proven unsatisfactory. This site was 34 miles Creek" by local youths. Rises in upper Crawford from Savannah, on a ridge called Red Bluff County, forms the border of Bibb County with (from the peculiar color of the soil). This was Crawford and Houston counties before it enters once the county seat of Effingham County, and the Ocmulgee River north of Warner Robins. served briefly as the capital of Georgia when The name is a Creek Indian word meaning "Deer the legislature met here in February 1796. The Trap Creek," from echo, "deer," and conna, original settlement was converted into a cowpen "trap." It was so named because deer that came in 1738, and by the year 1855, there were but here to drink from the stream were attacked two residences remaining of the original by Indians before they could escape up the steep Ebenezer, one being vacant. The Jerusalem banks. Old variations of spelling have included Church which was built here in 1767 houses IT-CHEECONO, ICHO-CONNO. ECHE- a museum, and is the only structure still CONNEE, ITCHOCUNNO, and ICHO-CON- standing. The community of OKI (q.v.) later NAUGH. It has also been called LITTLE replaced the dead town. Communities named TOBESOFKE CREEK. This stream was the EBENEZER have been established in Dooly site of mass "skinny dipping" during the 1970 County (was also known as COUNTRY Atlanta Pop Festival (see Byron). LITTLE STORE), Harris County (five miles east of ECHECONNEE CREEK in northeast Crawford Hamilton, and named for the Ebenezer Baptist County is a tributary of Echeconnee Creek. Church established here in 1873), Monroe County (later known as DAMES FERRY q.v. ECHETE, Baldwin County. This was thought post office), Morgan County (located ten miles to have been an old Hitchiti Indian town in the northwest of Madison River, and which was also called REESE) and in the southwest section vicinity of today's Milledgeville. of Schley County (also known as LICKSKIL- LET, which was settled before 1836 when the Ebenezer church was established here). EBO LANDING, St. Simons Island. Named for the less favored Ebo Negroes of Africa, who were among the many slaves bootlegged into this secluded spot on Dunbar Creek, two miles south of Fort Frederica. EBON INTERNATIONAL PREPARA- ECHOLS COUNTY. Created December 13, TORY ACADEMY, Forsyth. Established 1858 with 425 square miles taken from Clinch Ecima Chate 70 Georgia Place-Names and Lowndes counties. This is the stats's least EDGEWOOD AVENUE of Atlanta was named populous county, having fewer than 2,000 from this early community. inhabitants. Named after General Robert M. EchoIs ( ? - c. 1846), who was president of the EDISON, Calhoun County. Incorporated as Georgia Senate and died in Mexico during the a town December 6, 1902. Originally called War with Mexico. The county seat is Statenville NUBBINTOWN, it was afterwards named for (q.v.). The court house was destroyed by fire Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) the inventor. in 1897. See also Menlo. ECIMA CHATE. The Indian name for the EDWARDS LAKE, Bibb County. Located RED HILLS Region (q.v.). just east of Herbert Smart Airport, at or near the estate of distinguished Southern author, ECTOR, Meriwether County. This was an early Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938). This lake community located a few miles northwest of is formed by a dam on Swift Creek. Greenville, near old Ector Mill. The Ectors were among the settlers of this region. EDWARDSVILLE, DeKalb County. This community was located seven miles northeast ECUN HUT COO CHEE, Chattahoochee of Atlanta on the Airline (Southern) Railroad. County. This is an area along the south side Was made a post office December 26, 1876 of Upatsi Creek within the present Fort Benning which was discontinued in October 1892. The Reservation, and its Creek Indian name means first postmaster was Hiram Edwards. "Little White Ground." EELBECK, Chattahoochee County. Was ECUNHUTKENENE PATH. The Creek located nine miles northeast of Cusetta. Indian word means "White Ground Path." This Previously called MILLVILLE, it was a post was an Indian trail which extended to the office in the Henry J. Eelbeck home. Chattahoochee River, in what is now Fort Benning Military Reservation. EFFINGHAM, Effingham County. This was designated the county seat February 7, 1799 EDEN, Bryan County. Named from the Biblical after previously having been at Elberton (q.v.). Garden of Eden. The only post office in the It was later moved to Springfield (q.v.). county in 1849, it was located approximately midway between Pembroke and Richmond Hill. Was the site of the first county seat, and was also called BRYAN (q.v.). There is today a community of EDEN near the southernmost tip of Effingham County. EDGEHILL, Glascock County. A post office existed here from February 25, 1902 to Septem- ber 14, 1903. This descriptively named commu- nity is located six miles south of Gibson. It was EFFINGHAM COUNTY. Created February formerly called JULE WILCHER QUARTERS, 5, 1777 with 480 square miles acquired by Creek and was then named by school teacher, Mrs. cession of May 20, 1733. This was an original J.C.A. Wilcher, after a small village in her native county, previously organized in 1758 as the state of Virginia.
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