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Rossville, GA
Rossville is a city in Walker County, Georgia, Walker County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The population was 3,980 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, TN–GA Chattanooga metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History A post office has been in operation at Rossville since 1817. The city was named after Cherokee Indian Chief John Ross (Cherokee chief), John Ross, who resided there until being forced to relocate with his people to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. The city incorporated in 1905.Elizabeth B. Cooksey,Walker County" ''New Georgia Encyclopedia'', 2006. The John Ross House (Rossville, Georgia), John Ross House, a log cabin, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Rossville is a suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the cities are separated by the Tennessee/Georgia state line. The cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
