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On the afternoon of April 2nd, 2025, Pickens County resident Jessica McCabe found a cannonball near the bridge off Swan Bridge road

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

The Poet Bury me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and...

Bent Tree Community, a private gated community located four miles east of Jasper, Georgia, had its first houses built in 1970. Today,...

Tim Day, a member of the Gartrell/McCravey line recently reached out to me about helping him track down some long-lost relatives.  Back...

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

In 1930, in Northeastern Pickens County, Col. Sam Tate opened a 10,000-acre resort for wealthy Atlantans called Tate Mountain Estates. ...

The history of violence, especially when used to protect tradition, and/or fighting against a centralized power structure is frequently...

In a previous post about Young Potts Cemetery, we learned of Young Potts, his emigration to the gold mines of the Dahlonega area, and his...

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...

CLICK HERE TO BUY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: A COMPENDIUM OF NORTH GEORGIA HISTORY After four years of research and countless hours and...

For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...

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

April 7, 1938, was one of those fortunately rare days when the weather moved from the back to the front page of newspapers. Savage storms...

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

Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer.  While you can teach people how to...

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

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

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