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The Perseverance Quarry can still be seen on the north side of Cove Road.  In the 1850s Summey and Hurlick operated a marble operation...

Amicalola Electrical Membership Co-operative began in 1940 as one of the last electrical membership co-ops. Rather than benefiting from...

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...

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

My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...

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

As with Lindsey Williams Evans, Carter Lee Smith, C.L. “Seal” (a pronunciation of the C and L together) Smith, was determined not to...

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...

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

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...