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Cornelia is a city in Habersham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,160 at the 2010 census, up from 3,674 at the 2000 census. It is house to one of the world's largest apple sculptures, which is displayed on top of an obelisk-shaped monument. Cornelia was the retirement house of baseball legend Ty Cobb who was born nearby, and was a base of operation for production of the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase that was filmed along the Tallulah Falls Railway that ran from Cornelia northward along the rim of Tallulah Gorge to Franklin, North Carolina.

Cornelia was originally called "Blaine", and below the latter post had its Begin in the in advance 1870s later the Charlotte Airline Railroad was extended to that point. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1887 as the "Town of Cornelia".

Cornelia abounds in historical lore. Near the city is the Wofford Trail, on which many stagecoach robberies occurred. The last railroad holdup in Georgia took place at Cagle's Crossing, which is a few miles south of Cornelia. The combined of Habersham County was extremely faithful to the Confederacy and was known, along behind the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and countless additional fertile, out-of-the-way places as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy", as thousands of bushels of wheat and corn were supplied to the troops from this area alone. After the Fall of Atlanta, a superiority of William Tecumseh Sherman's cavalry was sent to charge the county; but the Confederate Home Guard, made occurring of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Union soldiers at a narrow pass more or less four miles east of the town. By making considerable noise and stirring in the works clouds of smoke, they troubled off the Union soldiers and saved the Place from final devastation. Today this act is remembered as "The Battle of the Narrows".