Jasper, Georgia

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...

Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Mar 74 min read

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...

Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Mar 411 min read

The History of the Woodbridge Inn

The beginnings of Jasper, the Woodbridge inn, and the hospitality industry in Northwest Georgia go back to 1805. In that year, the State...

Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Feb 2818 min read

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...

Christopher

Feb 263 min read

The Pauper's Home of Pickens County

During the 19th and 20th centuries, many counties in the United States had places where the indigent could live and take shelter. They...

Webmaster

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...

Christopher

Jul 26, 202313 min read

The Tornado History of Pickens County, Georgia

(1884 - 2023) Since 1884, the year of the first documented tornado in Pickens County, there have been many minor and several devasting...

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Mar 22, 20233 min read

The Lost Maps of 1883. (The Railroad Comes to Jasper and the Creation of Talking Rock)

In searching through the archives of deeds at the county, I came across this map of the town of Jasper dated March 5th, 1883. The chief...