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Aug 22, 20244 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 20, 20243 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 14, 20241 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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Mar 1, 20242 min read
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 27, 20243 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 16, 20243 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...
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