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Apr 9, 20242 min read
Joseph Mahan Jr. and an Early Gold Mine Discovered in Pickens County
In June of 1964, Joseph Mahan Jr., an archaeologist from Columbus, Georgia, arranged a trip to southwest Pickens County, near the...
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Mar 8, 20243 min read
The Last Stockade
When the Indian Removal happened in 1838, a series of stockades were built in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee to round...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read
North Georgia History Book Available (Digital and Print)
CLICK HERE TO BUY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: A COMPENDIUM OF NORTH GEORGIA HISTORY After four years of research and countless hours and...
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Feb 28, 20243 min read
Rural Exploration (RUREX): How to Find Historical Sites)
Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer. While you can teach people how to...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Feb 23, 20243 min read
The Lost History of Eastern North America’s Ancient Walls
Many millions in eastern North America live within a short distance of amazing ruins as old as two millennia but do not know it....
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Feb 13, 20243 min read
Long Swamp Town: The History and Origin of Long Swamp Creek
The Mitchell Map The Mitchell map of 1755 was the first map to show Long Swamp as a place (albeit, under a different name). The map was...
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Jan 26, 20243 min read
The Keith Plantation of Cherokee County
According to local sources, the Keith Plantation near Canton, GA, in present-day Keithsburg* during the Civil War. The property held...
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Oct 27, 20233 min read
Jacob M. Scudder and the Legend of the Gold Tunnel
I am Jake Scudder, a Wilkes County man from Jackson, A Whig and Republican in political conviction, Resting beneath these columns of...
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Aug 16, 20232 min read
The Tools of the Time Traveler: Maps, rocks, roads, trees, and flowers.
Oh, how I love to explore abandoned places. Nothing quite satisfies my curiosity like finding an old homestead in the middle of a forest....
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Christopher
Oct 6, 20224 min read
Andrew's Chapel Cemetery
Cherokee County officially came into existence in 1831. Previously, the land was known as the Cherokee Territory. Two years before,...
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Nov 24, 20202 min read
Murphy Bottom Uncovered
If you ask old-time residents of Pickens County, they'll tell you that Murphy Bottom off of Jerusalem Church Road (near two branches of...
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Christopher
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Ancient Indian Rock Mounds in Pickens County
High atop Rich Mountain there is a half acre site with 95 stacks of Indian rock piles. Ancient Sites within Pickens County Pretribal...
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Christopher
Nov 12, 20202 min read
Native Americans Artifacts Found Within Bent Tree
In the early 1970s Robert L. Blakely, Roy S. Dickens and Phillip Greear found 50 artifacts within the newly developing community....
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