Rising Fawn is an unincorporated community in the southern part of Dade County, Georgia, United States. It is the location of Cloudland Canyon State Park.

History

Rising Fawn was named after the child of a Cherokee Indian chieftain. The custom was to name the child after the first thing seen. On the following dawn, the chief saw a fawn rise from its bed and thought that he hadn't seen anything more beautiful. He then named his child Rising Fawn.

Geography

Rising Fawn is located in the northwestern part of Georgia, very close to the Alabama state line. Interstate 59 runs from southwest to northeast to the west of the community, leading northeast 28 mi to Chattanooga, Tennessee (via I-59 to I-24), and southwest 120 mi to Birmingham, Alabama. U.S. Route 11 also runs through the community, leading north 8 mi to Trenton, the county seat of Dade County, and southwest 14 mi to Hammondville, Alabama.

Demographics

Rising Fawn is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Notable people