Utøy (disambiguation)

Utøy (also Utoy or Utøya) can refer to the following:

Places

• Utøy, a village in Inderøy municipality, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway (sometimes called Utøya)
  • Utøy School, a school in the village of Utøy in Inderøy, Norway
• Utøya, an island in Hole municipality, Buskerud, Norway
  • The shooting incident on this island in July 2011.
• Achernar Island (also known as Utöy), an island off of Antarctica
• Utoy USA, State of Georgia, Atlanta, 4000 year old Village of the Creek Indians along the main Indian trail until 1821 (Sandtown Road, to Pitch Tree and Ponce de Leon)

See also

• Utö, Finland, an island in the Archipelago Sea, in southwest Finland
• Utö, Sweden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden

Other

• Utoy (TV series), a Philippine television series
• Utoy Post Office First Established in 1821 in Dekalb, now Fulton County, GA USA along the Sandtown Road (now Cascade Road in SW Atlanta) at the site of a former Creek Indian Village and Trading post. Cited in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies August 1864 as a site for cavalry operations, and the movements of US Forces to cut rail lines at Shadnar Church (Red Oak) during the Siege of Atlanta 26 Aug 1864. First Prominent Residents were Dr Joshua Gilbert first Physician in Atlanta (Lived two miles east on the site of the current Cascade nature preserve/ Utoy Creek Battlefield), Dr William Gilbert first Physician on Fulton County, lived one mile east along Cascade Road, Judge James Wilson, who lived 1 mile NW along the Fairburn Road, Jessee Childress, Joseph Willis, William Poole, Decatur Bennett.
• Utoy Creek Creek traveling from East Point North West and flowing into the Chattahoochee River in Fulton, County GA. Named for a branch of the Creek, Muscogian Indians that lived there until 1821 and traded with white settleres until lands were taken by US Troops in 1821 in violation of a US Treaty between the US Senate and the Creek Confederations. The Name Utoy in the Creek Indian Language translates to "lives on the boundary" Uptoi is an additional spelling of this name.
• Battle of Utoy Creek Operation of the United States Army, Military Division of the Mississippi under Major General William T. Sherman. Sherman ordered Schofield Commanding the Army of the Ohio (USV), XXIII Army Corps and the attached XIV Corps under Major General John M. Palmer to move swiftly on 1 August 1864 to break through Confederate defenses protecting the railroads along the North Branch of Utoy Creek (Currently Greenwood Cemetery and John A White Park) which was unsuccessfully executed by the XIVth Army Corps Under MG Palmer 3–5 August 1864 agains a portion of Steven D. Lees Corps of Confederate Infantry immediately following the battle of Ezra church. . Later on 6 August Schofields Corps attacked what was thought to be the end of the Confederate lines running parallel to cascade Road in the vicenity of the current Cascade Nature Preserve. Two US Infantry Divisions COX's and Hascalls were deployed and made assaults which were unsuccessful with a loss of 800 Killed and 1200 wounded. A Medal of Honor was presented to PVT Samuel Grimshaw, USV of the XIV Corps for his actions along Cascade Road. The potential success of this operations would have ment the immediate surrender of Atlanta if successful. Thes result of the US failed attack was the siege of Atlanta Aug 7-26, 1864.
• Uptoi or Utoy Creek Indian Word meaning describing those Indians that lived on the Boundary with the Cherokees near the chattahoochee river.
• Utoy Church First Operating Church in Dekalb, now Fulton County, GA in current SW Atlanta established in 1822 2 1/2 Miles East of the Indian village of Utoy.
• Utoy Village 1521 may have been visited by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León looking for gold and the fountain of youth. The priest who documented the trip described a village after the big river (Chattahoochee) and a small village on a smaller river (Utoy Creek) along the Indian trading route, the Sandtown Road (Now Cascade Road at the intersection of I-285)

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