Dallas was designated the new county seat in 1852 by the inferior
court of the county. It was incorporated by an act of the Georgia
General Assembly on February 8, 1854, on 40 acres (160,000 m2)
purchased from Garrett H. Spinks on May 14, 1852, for $1000. Its first
commissioners were James H. Ballinger, James S. Hackett, Hezekiah
Harrison, John S. Poole, and Garrett H. Spinks.
In the late 1850s the town no longer elected officers and a new charter was issued in 1883. The Battle of New Hope Church (May 25-28, 1864) took place four miles from Dallas.[5]
For many years the real WKRP was in Dallas, just to the west of the center of downtown.
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