The Sundown Counties of Georgia
A history of violence used to protect tradition, and fighting against a centralized economy and power structure can be found in the...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 1123 min read
LIGHT AND THEN POWER: SIXTY YEARS OF A NORTH GEORGIA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CO-OP (2001)
Amicalola Electrical Membership Co-operative began in 1940 as one of the last electrical membership co-ops. Rather than benefiting from...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 38 min read
The Bizarre Sharp Mountain Revival of 1873
Historian Bernice McCullar provided, through her popular Atlanta newspaper column, Georgia Notebook many Georgians of her day with all of...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 12 min read
Pioneer Engineers: The Atherton Brothers In Pickens and Cherokee County, Georgia
Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...
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Feb 283 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 255 min read
The First European Settlement of North Georgia and Pickens County in the American Revolution
For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Feb 247 min read
The Georgia Confederate Home Guard
The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...
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Feb 163 min read
The Tragedies of Steele's Bridge: Both of them.
Most people from Pickens and Dawson County are familiar with the metal span bridge over the Amicalola River. Spanning 80 feet over a...
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Feb 133 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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Feb 62 min read
The Other Fugitive of Lee Cape's Murder
As with Lindsey Williams Evans, Carter Lee Smith, C.L. “Seal” (a pronunciation of the C and L together) Smith, was determined not to...
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Feb 35 min read
The Night Riders of Pickens County. (Part 3) The Life and Death of Policeman Lee Cape
Policeman Lee Cape had always suspected his enemies would eventually get him. But he would tell his friends, “but when they do, I’ll be...
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Jan 263 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 4, 20233 min read
The Old Federal Road:
The Treaty of Tellico and the great road that traversed Augusta, Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1805 the Federal Road was created,...
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Aug 4, 20232 min read
The History of John's Mill/J.W. Dean's Mill
In 1966, John Humphreys moved to the Hinton area of Pickens County. A machinist by trade, he purchased the land of the former Dean Mill...
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Feb 16, 20233 min read
Staged Death at the Cove
Juan Contreras, Sr.'s grave marker - Pleasant Union Baptist Cemetery, Waleska This is the tragic story of the Contreras family of...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
Fort Newnan/Fort Talking Rock: Indian Removal Fort
Fort Newnan was built in March of 1838 in Gilmer County (Present-day Pickens) It was named after Major General Daniel Newnan, Georgia...
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Feb 8, 20232 min read
Carmel Station/Taloney: Missionaries among us
Carmel Mission, which took its name on January 7, 1824 - previously named Taloney Mission, was a missionary outpost of the Presbyterians...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
The Old Coward/Fitts/Hendrix House
Standing not more than a mile away from Long Swamp Baptist Church is the old Coward' homestead. The Cowards had moved here (then...
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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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