LaFayette
LaFayette straddles the corridor between Lookout Mountain and Taylor Ridge in northwest Georgia, a position that has made it Walker County’s civic and commercial center. The city is the county seat and was named for the Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer who aided the American Revolution. US Route 27 runs through town, connecting LaFayette with the wider Ridge and Valley landscape of the southern Appalachians. Nearby Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park preserves major Civil War battlefields. Downtown LaFayette remains a practical small-city center for the rural communities of Walker County.
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Established as the seat of Walker County, LaFayette grew into a small north-west Georgia city near Lookout Mountain, in the Ridge and Valley section of the Appalachians. Incorporated in 1835 and named for the Marquis de Lafayette, it remains the county’s administrative centre amid long wooded ridges and cultivated valleys. Downtown is organised around the Walker County courthouse, while the wider area carries the legacy of the Civil War through Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, which includes the Chickamauga Battlefield in Walker County. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across north-west Georgia.
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