Photo Gallery: Walker County
Marker text:
Created December 18, 1833, and named for Major Freeman Walker
of Augusta, prominent attorney and United States Senator. Here the fierce
Chickamaugas preyed upon pioneers and were in turn defeated and driven away;
here Federals and Confederates locked in combat in 1863.
Lookout Mountain and its spur Pigeon Mountain
on the West, Taylor's and Dick's Ridges on the east of the county provide
spectacular scenery. Rich coal and iron deposits abound; between the
mountains lie fertile valleys.
146-3 Georgia Historical Commission 1953
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