Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Resaca, GA

Resaca is a town in Gordon County in northwest Georgia, lying along the Oostanaula River, with some unincorporated areas extending into neighboring Whitfield County.

Resaca was founded in 1848 as Dublin with the arrival of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, was renamed Resacca when incorporated in 1854, and had its spelling shortened to Resaca in 1871; the modern town received its current charter in 1981.

Returning Mexican-American War soldiers named the town after the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, fought near Brownsville, Texas, in 1846.

The Battle of Resaca, fought May 14-15, 1864, was the first major battle of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, with roughly 6,100 casualties along a four-mile front.

A re-enactment of the Battle of Resaca is held every year on the third weekend of May.

Resaca is home to Georgia's first Confederate cemetery, dedicated on October 25, 1866, after local resident Mary J. Green led the effort to gather and reinter the Confederate dead; more than 450 Confederate soldiers are buried there.

Much of the Resaca battlefield remained undisturbed farmland for over a century, and beginning in 2000 the state of Georgia purchased battlefield land that is now preserved as the Resaca Battlefield Historic Site.

Since 1977 the Resaca area has been home to the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension, the only Orthodox Christian monastery in the state of Georgia.

As of the 2020 census, Resaca had 1,142 residents in 288 households, and about 37.8 percent of the town's population was Hispanic or Latino.

Local children attend Tolbert Elementary School in the Gordon County school district.