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1840 as Bethel Methodist Episcopalian Church.
Johnson Ferry, which is now a major road in the area, was
originally a ferry that took people from Atlanta across the
Chattahoochee.
LAKE ALLATOONA
This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the
Etowah River has a fun name to say, but one whose origins
are unclear.
It shares its name with the Allatoona Mountains, the
Allatoona pass through the mountains and the former
city of Allatoona, which was destroyed when the lake
was created.
Historian Richard Thornton said Allatoona is often
thought to come from a Cherokee word, but he said there
is no proof of this.
“The origin of the word, Allatoona, has remained a
mystery for two centuries,” Thornton writes on his blog,
“People of one Fire.” “Neither the Creek nor the Cherokee
Peoples claim the word as theirs, although local white historians
typically describe the word Allatoona as ‘a Cherokee
word of unknown meaning.’ For 14 years, I have tried to
translate the word, using the mathematics of statistics applied
to Muskogee, Miccosukee (Itsate Creek), Panoan, Itza
Maya, Cherokee and Arawak dictionaries, but to no avail.”
Thornton posits the name may come from an archaic
European language and mean “All the low mountains” or “All
the mountaintop/hilltop fortified towns.”
LOST MOUNTAIN
According to the papers of Walter McElreath, Lost
Mountain resident and one of the founders of the Atlanta
History Center, Lost Mountain got its name from an old
Cherokee legend.
In the tale, the beloved daughter of a Cherokee chief
eloped with a member of an enemy tribe the night before
she was to be married to a Cherokee man her father chose
for her.
Racked with sorrow, the chief spent the rest of his days
staring at the mountain to which his daughter escaped and
muttering “Lost, lost.”
In a different version of the story, published in the Jan. 29,
1869 edition of the Marietta Journal, the chief kills the suitor
and chases his daughter onto the mountain. When he does
not return, others form a search party and discover that the
father and daughter died together under an oak tree after
becoming lost on the mountain.
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