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We would like to provide the residents of  Waleska  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Waleska Home page. The Waleska Home page provides as much information as possible on Waleska. Knowing Waleska’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Waleska’s Home page, you will also find Waleska’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Waleska has a population of 804. 43% of Waleska’s inhabitants are Male, and 57 are female. 12% of Waleska is married and 48.6% own their own home. Waleska’s Ethnic is the following: White(66.3%), Black(18.8%), Multiple(13.7%), Hispanic(10.3%), Asian(1.2%).


The first white settlement in the Waleska area began in the early 1830s. Among these first pioneer settlers were the Reinhardt, Heard and Rhyne families, who moved into the region looking for fresh, fertile farm land. At first, these settlers lived among the Cherokee population already established in the area, but by 1838 all of the Cherokee had been forced westward to Oklahoma in the U.S.


government relocation movement known as the Trail of Tears. Early settler Lewis W. Reinhardt established a church in 1834 in the settlement known as Reinhardt Chapel and befriended many of the native Cherokee population. When the Trail of Tears forced the movement of Warluskee, the daughter of a local Cherokee chief and friend of Reinhardt's, westward, he named this settlement in her honor (see Funk Heritage Center below). In 1883, Augustus M.


Reinhardt, an Atlanta lawyer, former Confederate captain, and son of one of the founders of Waleska, along with his brother-in-law, former Civil War Lieutenant-Colonel John J. A. Sharp, founded Reinhardt Academy in Waleska for the impoverished children of Cherokee County. This school eventually became Reinhardt University. The city was officially incorporated in 1889, over 50 years after the establishment of the original farming settlement. While industry in Waleska's past has included tobacco farming, manufacturing, some mineral development, lumbering, and agriculture, which are both still active in the area, the chief "industry" of the town is and has always been Reinhardt University.


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