Trenton City

Dade County, Georgia

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Trenton City Hall: is loated at 12882 N Main Street, Trenton, GA 30752.
Phone: 706-657-4167.

Trenton [†] is the serat of Dade County, Georgia, United States. Founded in the 1830s, the area was originally known as Salem. In 1839 Salem was designated the seat of the newly formed Dade County. It was renamed Trenton in 1841.

This was historically part of Cherokee people territory before Georgia and the United States forced them to cede lands and, under Indian Removal Act, relocate to Indian Territory in the 1830s. The area was developed largely for subsistence farming.

The noted Southern humorist George Washington Harris (1814–1869) is buried in the Brock Cemetery in Trenton. Although he was considered one of the seminal writers of Southern humor and greatly influenced the literary works of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, his grave was not officially identified and marked with a monument until 2008.

† https://kids.kiddle.co/Trenton,_Georgia, accessed September, 2021.

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