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Gordon Springs (Georgia)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ5585853 ↗
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Gordon Springs is a spring and its associated settlement in Whitfield County, Georgia, near the city of Dalton. In the 19th century, George Washington Gordon and his brother, the Reverend Zachariah Gordon, operated a summer resort there.

Gordon Spring Creek flows out of it into Chickamauga Creek.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gordon, Springs and Georgia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gordon Springs (Georgia)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.