Written by Drew White

Ringgold, Georgia is a town known for love. Ringgold has been a popular spot for marrying since the 1800s because of its unique one-stop-shop quality. Blood work to test for sexually transmitted diseases was a required step of the marriage process until 2003. In Ringgold, couples were able to get their blood work completed and approved the day of the ceremony. The proximity to Fort Oglethorpe paired with simple blood work completion created a boom in the marriage market in Ringgold throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.