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Blue Ridge is a mountain city in Fannin County in far northern Georgia, sitting at about 1,762 feet elevation in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the southern Appalachians, roughly 93 miles north of Atlanta.

Blue Ridge was laid out in 1886 when the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad was extended into the mountains, and it was incorporated in 1887 by Colonel Mike McKinney, the railroad's builder.

In 1895 the Fannin County seat was transferred to Blue Ridge from Morganton, and Blue Ridge remains the county seat and the largest city in Fannin County.

Blue Ridge had just 1,253 residents at the 2020 census, living in 552 households — a permanent population far smaller than the crowds of visitors and second-home owners the resort town draws.

The city sits on a continental watershed divide: water on its north side flows via the Toccoa River toward the Tennessee River, while water to the south drains toward the Alabama River system.

Blue Ridge is the home of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, a heritage railroad whose trains make a four-hour, 26-mile round trip along the Toccoa River to the sister towns of McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee.

Just outside town, Lake Blue Ridge was created when the Toccoa River was dammed in 1930; at the time, Blue Ridge Dam was the largest earthen dam in the Southeast, and the reservoir is now ringed largely by Chattahoochee National Forest land.

Blue Ridge promotes itself as the 'Trout Fishing Capital of Georgia,' and Fannin County boasts more than 100 miles of trout streams and rivers.

Mercier Orchards, founded in 1943 by Bill and Adele Mercier on a 27-acre orchard, has grown over four generations into a roughly 300-acre farm growing dozens of apple varieties, and it is Georgia's only orchard that grows, presses, ferments and cans its own hard cider.

With about 60 inches of precipitation a year, Blue Ridge's climate reflects its place in the Appalachian temperate rainforest, with mild summers and occasional winter snow.