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Epworth is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Fannin County, Georgia, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1,703 feet in the north-central part of the county. A former name was Atalla. The ZIP code is 30541.
Epworth is located on Georgia State Route 5 between Blue Ridge (the county seat to the south) and McCaysville (on the Tennessee state line to the north).
Prior to European colonization, the area that is now Epworth was inhabited by the Cherokee people and other Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
A post office called Epworth has been in operation since 1901. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1906 as the "Town of Epworth".[5] The community was named after Epworth, in England.
Epworth is also the location of an Appalachian Technical College campus which closed, and was later slated to reopen as a campus of North Georgia Technical College.