Servin' the South. A Southern Railway Freight rumbles through a residential neighborhood in the small, unincorporated community of Lytle, Georgia, on its way south to Chickamauga, Lafayette, Summerville and points south.
Although I had been to this location on a previous trip to Georgia, and I was aware that the thoroughfare shown here was Lytle Road, I was not aware that Lytle was actually the name of this community until the Conductor on our charter specifically mentioned it. A quick Google search not only appeared to confirm the existence of Lytle, but indicated that the place once had its own post office. Oddly, the community appears to have been named in honor of Brigadier General William Haines Lytle, a Union Army Officer, who fell just a short distance east of here, during the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga. The hill where he died is also known as Lytle Hill. Now, when was the last time you ever heard of a town in Georgia being named for a Yankee General? Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction!
