Trion is a town in Chattooga County, in the far northwest corner of Georgia near the Alabama state line, set in the foothills of the Appalachians. The 2020 census counted 1,960 residents, making Trion the second-largest incorporated community in the county. Its history is inseparable from the textile industry that built it. The town takes its name from the trio of founders behind Trion Factory — Andrew P. Allgood, his father-in-law Spencer S. Marsh, and William K. Briers. Established as the first cotton mill in northwest Georgia, Trion Factory gave the settlement its economic foundation, and the community incorporated around it in the mid-nineteenth century. Though the original mill burned in 1875, it was rebuilt and passed through a series of owners — the Trion Company, Riegel Textile, and Mount Vernon Mills — that sustained the town's identity. The community has long been associated with denim production and is sometimes called the denim capital of the world. That industrial heritage shaped a distinctive townscape: a compact downtown, a mill village of worker housing, and civic buildings clustered near the factory. Trion also operates its own independent Trion City Schools district, an arrangement that reflects the town's historic self-sufficiency and civic pride. Today Trion remains a working-class, close-knit community where the mill continues to employ local residents. Its location places residents within reach of Summerville, the county seat, as well as Rome to the south and Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the north. The surrounding ridges and valleys of northwest Georgia provide the scenic backdrop for a town defined by more than a century of textile making.