Long Swamp Town: The History and Origin of Long Swamp Creek
The Mitchell Map The Mitchell map of 1755 was the first map to show Long Swamp as a place (albeit, under a different name). The map was...
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Feb 62 min read
The Other Fugitive of Lee Cape's Murder
As with Lindsey Williams Evans, Carter Lee Smith, C.L. “Seal” (a pronunciation of the C and L together) Smith, was determined not to...
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The Night Riders of Pickens County. (Part 3) The Life and Death of Policeman Lee Cape
Policeman Lee Cape had always suspected his enemies would eventually get him. But he would tell his friends, “but when they do, I’ll be...
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Jan 315 min read
The Night Riders of Pickens County: Part 2 - The Enigmatic Andrew Jackson Glenn
During the heart of the Civil War, Pickens County was torn between sides. The flag that flew over the courthouse yard was a Union flag. ...
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Jan 306 min read
The Night Riders of Pickens County (Part 1)
During the Civil War and for several decades that followed, criminals and vigilantes from various places around the United States would...
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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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Dec 27, 20232 min read
Tracing Tracks Through Time: The : The Abandoned section of the “Hook and Eye”
During the last two decades of the 19th Century, the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad (MNGR) finally reached Jasper, eventually making...
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Nov 22, 20231 min read
The Sad Death of Enoch Padgett
In the early months of 1910, brothers Enoch and William Padgett constructed a rock wall and dam on Pettit Creek to irrigate their lower...
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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 17, 20233 min read
A Moonshine Still in North Georgia
A few years ago, I ran across a reference for a reported moonshine still in a North Georgia gated community. Initially, I had doubts...
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Oct 3, 20233 min read
The Convict Lease System of Georgia
The system was born of the southern states' emergent need for free labor at the end of the Civil War. Within a decade of the end of the...
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Sep 25, 20233 min read
Lonesome City: The Forgotten Hamlet of Tate
According to Dr. Kathleen Thompson, in her October 5th, 2011, Pickens Progress article about Black Communities in Tate and Jasper:...
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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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The Tornado History of Pickens County, Georgia
(1884 - 2023) Since 1884, the year of the first documented tornado in Pickens County, there have been many minor and several devasting...
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Jun 7, 20233 min read
The Source Maps of the 1903 Pickens County Map.
John W. Henley was born March 26, 1852, in Dahlonega - one year before Pickens County was formed. While attending the North Georgia...
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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 27, 20231 min read
The Tornado of 1884, Cagletown, Tate, and more.
In February of 1884, a tornado visited Pickens County and cut a 15-mile path, leaving several residents dead (including the Cagle and...
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Feb 16, 20233 min read
Staged Death at the Cove
Juan Contreras, Sr.'s grave marker - Pleasant Union Baptist Cemetery, Waleska This is the tragic story of the Contreras family of...
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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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