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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...

Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia.  After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New...

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

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...

Pickens County, in the Appalachian Mountains and one of Georgia's smallest counties in size and population in 1860, existed as an...

In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...

In 1890, a small hamlet in south-central Pickens County named Jockey arose near the Cagle Mills on Sharp Mountain Creek.    A post office...

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...

Remains of the old Alice grist mill. Nowadays, if you were to drive down Salem...