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Ellijay, GA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Ellijay a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Ellijay Home page. The Ellijay Home page provides as much information as possible on Ellijay. Knowing Ellijay’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Ellijay’s Home page, you will also find Ellijay’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Ellijay has a population of 2036. 55.6% of Ellijay’s inhabitants are Male, and 44.4 are female. 41.1% of Ellijay is married and 29.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $186,178, and the average rent is $580. Household median income in Ellijay is $40,114, and the individual median income is $22,064. Ellijay’s Ethnic is the following: White(67.2%), Hispanic(39.5%), Other(28.1%), Native(3.4%), Multiple(0.8%), Black(0.4%).
This area was long settled by cultures of indigenous peoples. It was known as part of the homeland of the historic Cherokee people. They had a village here, at the confluence of the Ellijay and Cartecay rivers, which together form the Coosawattee River. Ellijay (sometimes formerly spelled "Elejoy") is the anglicized form or transliteration of the Cherokee name Elatseyi, meaning "new ground".
Other sources say it means "green place".Gilmer County was organized by territory cut from Cherokee County in 1832, and Ellijay was designated as its county seat in 1834. It was a fairly isolated and remote mountain community until the late nineteenth century. After the Marietta and Northern Georgia Railroad (later the Louisville and Nashville Railroad) was constructed through here in 1884, the railroad stimulated a boom in the timber industry by providing a profitable way to get lumber to markets.
Many timber companies came into the area with their workers. More than a century later, another major transportation improvement was construction of the Zell Miller Mountain Parkway (Georgia 515, named for Georgia governor and U.S. senator Zell Miller), which was completed in 1991.
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