Come One Come All to The First Annual Alto Georgia Wing Fling BBQ Cook-Off!!! This year not only will we have classic car and tractors, live country music, face painting, boiled peanuts, world class BBQ, hot dogs and hamburgers and a parade that stretches from one end of town to the other,for the first time in the history of Alto we will hold a Wing Cook-off! This event is sponsored by Springer Mt. farms. If you would like to join in the cook-off as a sponsor or contender contact altocityhall@windstream.net There are also vendor spaces available. Please help us in making this a fun and enjoyable day. Hope to see you all there!
June 5th 2010 10 am
Founded in 1877, Alto (previously known as "Lulah City" and "Long View") was incorporated on December 16, 1895. Alto Georgia BBQ Wing Fling cook off
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One square mile in size and 1,395 feet above sea level, it has a population of approximately 1,820 people.
Alto is located in Habersham County,
Habersham County was created in 1818 from Indian treaty lands. Georgia's 43rd county was named for Major Joseph Habersham, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was Mayor of Savannah, served in Congress and was President George Washington's Postmaster General.
A Civil War iron works in the county produced guns and cannons for the Confederacy. Most of Habersham County was spared from pillage after Confederate troops turned back Union Calvary in a skirmish near Currahee Mountain.
Habersham County
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