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The Howard Plantation of Bartow County
Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New...
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Aug 22, 20244 min read
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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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Apr 5, 20247 min read
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Into the Wilderness:John Kellogg’s Journey Through Civil War North Georgia
John Azor Kellogg wrote a memoir of the time he spent with the people of north Georgia that his family published after his death. He was...
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Mar 7, 20244 min read
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THE LOST HISTORY OF AN ALLRED FAMILY OF NORTH GEORGIA
My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...
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Feb 28, 202418 min read
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Tate's Saw Mill - 1869
In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...
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Feb 27, 20243 min read
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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 24, 20247 min read
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The Fire-Eater/Diamond Furnace of North Georgia
This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands...
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Feb 20, 20242 min read
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The Night Riders of Pickens County: Part 2 - The Enigmatic Andrew Jackson Glenn
During the heart of the Civil War, Pickens County was torn between sides. The flag that flew over the courthouse yard was a Union flag. ...
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Jan 31, 20245 min read
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The Night Riders of Pickens County (Part 1)
During the Civil War and for several decades that followed, criminals and vigilantes from various places around the United States would...
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Jan 30, 20246 min read
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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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Jan 26, 20243 min read
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John Wesley Cagle and a Hamlet Named Jockey
In 1890, a small hamlet in south-central Pickens County named Jockey arose near the Cagle Mills on Sharp Mountain Creek.   A post office...
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Jan 16, 20243 min read
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A Moonshine Still in North Georgia
A few years ago, I ran across a reference for a reported moonshine still in a North Georgia gated community. Initially, I had doubts...
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Oct 17, 20233 min read
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The Resurrection of the Nelson-Simmons Tavern
In 1804, the Cherokee Indians had negotiated the terms of the creation of a Federal Road that ran between Tennessee to Augusta, Georgia. ...
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Mar 24, 20235 min read
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The Murder of Peter Cantrell
Peter Cantrell's grave marker, not at actual site of his murder, placed by Dutch Cantrell of Canton. Located on private property on LL...
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Feb 7, 20231 min read
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