Hamilton House

The Hamilton House is the most established block home in Dalton and originates before the city. The house was worked by John and Rachel Hamilton. John Hamilton was a structural specialist from White Plains, New York. John set out south to Kingston, Tennessee where he met his significant other, Rachel. They were hitched in Tennessee on February 13, 1834 and moved to Georgia five years after the fact. Hamilton obtained the land where the house presently remains from Absolum Holcomb who had bought it amid the Cherokee arrive lottery.

The land beforehand had a place with a Cherokee Indian named Red Bird who passed on after he was tossed from his steed while dashing on what is presently Thornton Avenue. While in Georgia, John took a shot at the courses for the railroad that would interface Chattanooga to Atlanta. Notwithstanding his work on the railroad, John ran an extensive estate, filled in as judge of the Inferior Court in the establishing of Whitfield County, and was instrumental in the working of Dalton Academy in 1851. The Hamilton House has served numerous capacities consistently. During the winter of 1863-64, General Joseph H. Lewis, administrator of the Kentucky Orphan Brigade, made camp with his men alongside the spring on the property while Rachael was away in Middle Georgia.