Split Silk, Georgia

History

According to tradition, the community received its name from an incident in which a girl's silk dress accidentally was ripped near the local country store.[2]

Little remains of the original community. In 2014, Walton County Board of Commissioners voted in favor of installing town signs to mark the site.[3]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Split Silk, Georgia
  2. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 210. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
  3. Swanepoel, Sharon (January 10, 2014). "Putting Split Silk back on the map". Monroe Local News. Retrieved 11 June 2019.


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