Cisco, Cisco, Cisco, part 9 – Cisco, Georgia

: 1966 USGS Aerial Photo of Cisco, GA

I’m trying to build the N scale replica of the town of Cisco, Utah circa 1970. Accordingly, it’s my routine to search “Cisco” on the web, but it goes wrong most of the times bothered by “San Francisco” or “Cisco Systems”. Sometimes, “Cisco, Texas” gets in my way. Thus, I was wondering how many “Cisco”s are there in the United States. My recent research during these Stay Home days revealed some of them. Let me introduce these places named Cisco as a sideshow for my Town of Cisco posts.


Cisco, Murray, Georgia: the Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s Cisco station was located in the northernmost part of the Murray County near the TN/GA border, along the line from Cincinnati to Atlanta between Chatsworth station to the south and Eton station to the north. The station was established in 1905 and the line was completed in 1906[1, 2]. Shipping lumbers out of the sawmill was the leading role of the station[3, 4].


A settlement was established in 1834 by John(1799 ｰ 1872) and Nancy(1820 ｰ 1904) Cockburn, preceding the railroad[5]. Their daughter Mary Elvira "Cis/Ciss" Cockburn(1849 ｰ 1941) ran a store at the settlement: Cis was her nickname. Accordingly, the place was referred to as Cis Cockburn's Store/Cisco[5, 6].


The Cisco Post Office was established in 1881, also preceding the railroad[7]. Marcus Montreville Howell Sr.(1854 ｰ 1931) was the original postmaster, succeeded by William D Petty(1834 ｰ 1917) in 1889.

The Cisco School was established in 1904 and operated until 1956[3, 8]. Land for the school was donated by Nancy Cockburn[9]. Both the original post office and the two-rooms schoolhouse built in 1924 are preserved at the community by the efforts of Jack Graves Clayton(1919 ｰ 2006)[9, 10, 11].


After the completion of the railroad, people came to gather by the depots from the Alaculsey Valley. In the early 1900s after the completion of the railroad, the community boasted of Clayton’s store, Kendrick’s store, Headrick’s feed store, Phillips’ mill, Dalton’s blacksmith shop, and Brownlee’s saw mill[3, 12].


Today, the former L&N line, present CSX Etowah Subdivision remains active but the station is long gone. The community of Cisco boasts the Cisco Post Office, two Churches, and the Cisco Mart convenience store. Carmeuse’s Filler Products-Cisco Mine, producing crushed stone, is located half a mile west of the community.

[1] A Brief Chronology of Murray County’s History, Murray County Museum;
[2] Smith, Robert Neil, (2015) An Evil Day in Georgia, University of Tennessee Press;
[3] Higdon, Charles W., (2014) Cisco Murray County, Georgia;
[4] 1905 photo of the station, Murray County Museum;
[5] Krakow, Kenneth K., (1975) Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins, Winship Press;
[6] photo of Mary Cockburn, Murray County Museum;
[7] Forte, Jim, Murray County, Georgia Post Offices, Jim Forte Postal History;
[8] Cisco School, LandmarkHunter.com;
[9] Mary Elvira “Ciss” Cockburn, findagrave.com;
[10] Old Cisco Post Office, LandmarkHunter.com;
[11] Oct. 17, 2006 Dalton Daily Citizen;
[12] 1919 photo of the community of Cisco, Georgia Archives;

: Google maps, Cisco, GA

　
筆者がNスケールで復元しようとしているユタ州Ciscoについて調べようとインターネット検索すると、余計なページばかりよく引っ掛かる。一番邪魔なのは「San Francisco」、次に邪魔なのは「Cisco Systems」に関連するページである。テキサス州にある「Cisco」という町に関連するページも結構邪魔だ。一方、お目当てのユタ州Ciscoの町に関連するページなどほとんどない。一体何件の「Cisco」がアメリカにあるのか。古い時刻表を調べてみると、ユタ州Cisco以外に八カ所ものCisco駅があったらしい。どんなところだろう。


Cisco, Georgia: 八カ所目のCisco駅は、Louisville & Nashville RailroadのCincinnatiおよびAtlantaを結ぶ路線に1905年開業した州境の駅である。

Ciscoという地名は、1834年にこの地に入植したCockburn一家の娘Maryが開いた店、Cis Cockburn's Storeもしくはその所在地を皆がCiscoと呼んだことに由来する。CisはMaryのニックネームだったそうだ。

郵便局は駅に先立ち1881年に開局している。駅開業後周辺の山間地から人が集まりだした。小学校は1904年の開校。1956年に閉じたが校舎は旧郵便局舎ともども保存されている。駅こそなくなって久しいが、村には現在も郵便局や教会、ガソリンスタンド併設のコンビニがあり盛業中である。

線路に西には採石場がある。南部ではおなじみの白い石灰岩を産出するが、トラック輸送に頼っているようで、近くの道路は真っ白になっている。