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Tuesday, November 10, 2026Nov 10

Dalton plans outdoor museum on Civil War

By Maggie Behringer

Correspondent

DALTON, Ga. – Dalton and Whitfield County’s heritage is helping to ensure the community’s future.

Officials hope a Civil War Landscape Museum, which would draw on the area’s collection of pristine military fortifications, will launch the area into a new age of tourism and further its goal of attracting younger residents.

“We have an untapped wealth of tourism-type assets,” Mayor David Pennington said.