Ribstone pippin; Etymology . Named after Ribston in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke (1642-1705) first introduced them. Noun . Ribston pippin (plural Ribston pippins) A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red. 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55
Cherokee County is a county located in the US state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 214,346. The county seat is Canton. The county Board of Commissioners is the governing body, with members elected to office. The county is under the jurisdiction of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, which is headed by Sheriff Frank Reynolds. The Cherokee County Sheriff's office is accredited by CALEA. The major cities within the county have individual police departments, such as Woodstoc
1 They are now known as the Eastern Band of Cherokees. 2  Today the Cherokee are presently the largest tribe of Native Americans in the United States. 3  They boast large and prosperous reservations in Oklahoma and North Carolina, and there are smaller groups of Cherokee in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.istory. 1  4,000 years ago, ancestors of The Cherokee migrated from the American southwest to the Great Lakes region. 2  After wars with the Delaware and Iroquois tribes of that area, the Cherokee made a permanent home in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and in South Carolina's foothills.