Two Coffee Counties are Better Than One

November 19th, 2009 by keen bean

Since there are so many curiously named places, I was all but certain that there would be at least one destination named Coffee. In fact, I half expected there to be a couple of towns or villages that had ended up with names like Ground Coffee Heights or Organic Coffee Valley. Alas, what I came up with was simply named Coffee County.

It is Georgia, USAs 108th county, and it was named for General John E. Coffee. That gentleman was a soldier, state legislator and ultimately congressman. The territory has a population of around 38,000, and appears to be a quaint place to live. The only surprise in this story is that there is yet another Coffee County in neighbouring Tennessee, USA. And yep, both counties are in fact named after the very same individual. Imagine that.