The Inn at the Tomacheechee, referred to by locals as just the IT since it is easier to say and spell, was founded by two (2) of the countries richest and most influential families, the McCormacks and the Sears.
McCormack is a family name that originated in Ireland and Scotland. Spelling variations include McCormak, MacCormack, MacKormack, McCormick, MacCormick, and Red. A person whose father was named Cormac would identify as Mc (i.e. "son of") Cormac; this pattern was continued by subsequent generations. Hence the third generation would be McMcCormack (i.e. "son of the son of Cormac); the fourth generation would be McMcMcCormack, etc. This began to get out of hand and sound rather silly so eventually the McCormacks starting using first names like everyone else. Famous McCormacks's include Cyrus Hall McCormack an American inventor and founder of the McCormack Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company and Willoughby M. McCormack who entered the spice industry and would have had a famous brand names after him had not most of the company's assets and records been destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Unable to afford a pre-built automobile, Willoughby hatched Plan B and build one from spare parts, but ran out of money before he could afford metal or even canvas for a roof. He then drove this shell of a car, known as a Plan B Shell or colloquially as a ShelBy kit car, down south to Georgia.
And of course you have heard of the Sears catalog. The first Sears catalog was published in 1888. By 1894, the Sears catalog had grown to 322 pages, featuring sewing machines, bicycles, sporting goods and a host of other new items. By 1895, the company was producing a 65,650-page catalog. By 1896, dolls, stoves and small electronics had been added to the catalog. In 1906 Sears opened its catalog plant at the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in Chicago. In 1933, Sears issued the first of its famous Christmas catalogs known as the "Sears Wishbook", a catalog featuring toys and gag gifts. Sears also sold about 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Sears designed 447 different housing kits, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room inn for summer vacationers. The catalog also entered the language, particularly of southern rural dwellers, as a euphemism for toilet paper. Sears made history in 1974 when it completed the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago. The tower became the world's tallest building upon its completion, a title it took from the World Trade Center towers in New York. The Roebuck family so enjoyed their visit to Chicago that they changed their family name to Sears before returning to Georgia to build the Inn from a catalog kit.
And thus it was that Dan, a distant relative of the first kit-car builder, and Amy, a distant relative of the kit-Inn builder, combined their expertise and opened the Inn at the Tomacheechee, named after the street the Inn is on and a terrible misspelling of Tomochichi, chief of the Yamacraw Indians, a prominent character from early Georgia history, though apparently obtuse enough to be totally unknown by the Akinator(TM). Originally only available to relatives, the Inn can now be reserved by most any acquaintance. Bitcoins accepted.
McCormack is a family name that originated in Ireland and Scotland. Spelling variations include McCormak, MacCormack, MacKormack, McCormick, MacCormick, and Red. A person whose father was named Cormac would identify as Mc (i.e. "son of") Cormac; this pattern was continued by subsequent generations. Hence the third generation would be McMcCormack (i.e. "son of the son of Cormac); the fourth generation would be McMcMcCormack, etc. This began to get out of hand and sound rather silly so eventually the McCormacks starting using first names like everyone else. Famous McCormacks's include Cyrus Hall McCormack an American inventor and founder of the McCormack Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company and Willoughby M. McCormack who entered the spice industry and would have had a famous brand names after him had not most of the company's assets and records been destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Unable to afford a pre-built automobile, Willoughby hatched Plan B and build one from spare parts, but ran out of money before he could afford metal or even canvas for a roof. He then drove this shell of a car, known as a Plan B Shell or colloquially as a ShelBy kit car, down south to Georgia.
And of course you have heard of the Sears catalog. The first Sears catalog was published in 1888. By 1894, the Sears catalog had grown to 322 pages, featuring sewing machines, bicycles, sporting goods and a host of other new items. By 1895, the company was producing a 65,650-page catalog. By 1896, dolls, stoves and small electronics had been added to the catalog. In 1906 Sears opened its catalog plant at the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in Chicago. In 1933, Sears issued the first of its famous Christmas catalogs known as the "Sears Wishbook", a catalog featuring toys and gag gifts. Sears also sold about 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Sears designed 447 different housing kits, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room inn for summer vacationers. The catalog also entered the language, particularly of southern rural dwellers, as a euphemism for toilet paper. Sears made history in 1974 when it completed the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago. The tower became the world's tallest building upon its completion, a title it took from the World Trade Center towers in New York. The Roebuck family so enjoyed their visit to Chicago that they changed their family name to Sears before returning to Georgia to build the Inn from a catalog kit.
And thus it was that Dan, a distant relative of the first kit-car builder, and Amy, a distant relative of the kit-Inn builder, combined their expertise and opened the Inn at the Tomacheechee, named after the street the Inn is on and a terrible misspelling of Tomochichi, chief of the Yamacraw Indians, a prominent character from early Georgia history, though apparently obtuse enough to be totally unknown by the Akinator(TM). Originally only available to relatives, the Inn can now be reserved by most any acquaintance. Bitcoins accepted.