41 to the area, and the county was subsequently discovered by tourists. Georgia built Highway 143 (which later became Highway 136) to connect U.S. Until that time, the only access to "the state of Dade" was from Tennessee or Alabama. There was no road connecting this county in the extreme northwest corner of Georgia to the rest of the state until 1939, when the state purchased Cloudland Canyon. In fact, visitors had to leave Georgia and go through Alabama or Tennessee to visit Dade County by road. It was rugged, isolated and totally disconnected from the rest of the state. That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the Inferior Court of the county of Walker, shall be authorized and required to cause to be ran and plainly marked a line as hereinafter designated, beginning at Lot one, in the ninth District of the fourth section, originally Cherokee now Walker county, thence a south west direction for its general course, so as to run as near as possible on the middle on the top of the Look Out Mountain, until it strikes the line of the State of Alabama, at or near Lot Number 145, in the 18th district of the fourth section, and all that portion of said county lying west of and north west of the aforesaid line, shall constitute a new county, to be called Dade." Access to Dadeĭade County was unlike any other county in the state for its first 102 years of existence. Created entirely from Walker County, Dade County's original boundaries were specified as: Dade County was created on December 25, 1837, by an act of the General Assembly (Georgia Laws 1837, page 65).
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