Lytle, Georgia

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

Walker County, Georgia County in the United States

Walker County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,756. The county seat is LaFayette. The county was created on December 18, 1833, from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation.

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History

A post office called Lytle was in operation from 1890 until 1910. [2] The community's name may honor William Haines Lytle, a Union officer killed in Georgia in the American Civil War. [3]

William Haines Lytle Union Army general

William Haines Lytle was a politician in Ohio, renowned poet, and military officer in the United States Army during both the Mexican–American War and American Civil War, where he was killed in action as a brigadier general.

American Civil War Civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The most studied and written about episode in U.S. history, the Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. The loyalists of the Union in the North proclaimed support for the Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated for states' rights to uphold slavery.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Lytle as a town in 1917; the town's municipal charter was repealed in 1995. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lytle, Georgia
  2. ↑ "Walker County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Walker County". Calhoun Times. 1 September 2004. p. 110. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 138. ISBN   0-915430-00-2.

Coordinates: 34°54′59″N85°16′30″W / 34.91639°N 85.27500°W / 34.91639; -85.27500

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