Name Derivation

Fulton County was named in honor of Hamilton Fulton, Georgia's State Engineer. In 1826 Wilson Lumpkin, a member of the Board of Public Works, and Fulton rode through the Cherokee Nation (called Cherokee Georgia at the time) from west of Decatur to Chattanooga to determine the feasibility of building a canal between the Tennessee River and the Chattahoochee River. Although Fulton and Lumpkin killed the idea of building a canal they realized it would be possible to span the distance with a railroad.

Atlanta, the county seat of Fulton County and the state capital, had numerous names before Atlanta and numerous stories of the derivation of the name Atlanta. The area was called Whitehall and Canebreak in the early days. Terminus was the common name for the area when construction began on the Western and Atlantic Railroad

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