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Dalton
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Dalton, city (1990 pop. 21,761), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a farm area. Its large tufted-textile industry was begun in the late 1800s and still remains important; the city is the center of the U.S. carpet industry. In the Civil War, Dalton (Confederate headquarters after the Chattanooga campaign) fell to Gen. Sherman in the Atlanta campaign (1864). The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is nearby, as is a state park.
Dalton
gang bank robbers of late 1800s; killed in shootout (1892). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 15–16]
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Wright portrays the Daltons as living in Kenwood, in the 4600 block of Drexel Boulevard, which Bessie reveals to Bigger as "that section not far from where the Loeb folks lived" (136).
While she knows people like the Daltons probably seemed like comic-relief freaks to most viewers, right now her audience is not a standard "iv audience.
The premier has concluded, it would appear correctly, that there is no need for two Daltons.
 
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