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Aug 224 min read

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 203 min read

Return to John's Mill: The Surprise Gift

Last summer, John Humphrey and his sons Norman and William, found themselves in unfortunate circumstances. Within two weeks of each...

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Mar 141 min read

The Tragic Drowning of the Hendrix Children

The summer of 1951 was a little hotter than normal. And that June 10th, Roxie Lee Blackwell Hendrix, her children, and a few others had...

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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 273 min read

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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Jan 163 min read

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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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 10, 20231 min read

The Lost Town of Alice

Nowadays, if you were to drive down Salem Church Road, chances are you would have no idea that you were driving past a once-thriving...