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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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...
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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...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Feb 247 min read
The Georgia Confederate Home Guard
The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...
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Oct 27, 20233 min read
Jacob M. Scudder and the Legend of the Gold Tunnel
I am Jake Scudder, a Wilkes County man from Jackson, A Whig and Republican in political conviction, Resting beneath these columns of...
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Oct 4, 20233 min read
The Old Federal Road:
The Treaty of Tellico and the great road that traversed Augusta, Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1805 the Federal Road was created,...
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Mar 24, 20235 min read
The Resurrection of the Nelson-Simmons Tavern
In 1804, the Cherokee Indians had negotiated the terms of the creation of a Federal Road that ran between Tennessee to Augusta, Georgia. ...
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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...
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Feb 15, 20232 min read
The Forgotten Game of Anetsa
Anetsa, a game that resembles lacrosse, was a Cherokee Indian game played by two teams of up to eighteen players on a 100-yard field....
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
Fort Newnan/Fort Talking Rock: Indian Removal Fort
Fort Newnan was built in March of 1838 in Gilmer County (Present-day Pickens) It was named after Major General Daniel Newnan, Georgia...
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Feb 8, 20232 min read
Carmel Station/Taloney: Missionaries among us
Carmel Mission, which took its name on January 7, 1824 - previously named Taloney Mission, was a missionary outpost of the Presbyterians...
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Feb 2, 20232 min read
The Murder and Exhumation of Chief James Vann
Chief Vann was a controversial figure. Born in the 1760s, the half Scotsman/half Cherokee, grew to become a wealthy businessman,...
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