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One of the last pictures taken of Bethel School. It was torn down around October, 2020. A new trailer sits where the school once was. ...

Carmel Mission, which took its name on January 7, 1824 - previously named Taloney Mission, was a missionary outpost of the Presbyterians...

Peter Cantrell's grave marker, not at actual site of his murder, placed by Dutch Cantrell of Canton. Located on private property on LL...

In 1877, a one-story dogtrot-style home was built off of the old Dawsonville-Jasper Road (present-day Cove Road). Over the hill and...

Standing not more than a mile away from Long Swamp Baptist Church is the old Coward' homestead. The Cowards had moved here (then...

In 1829, a man named Young Potts moved to Dawson County from South Carolina. He hit the ground running and made a small fortune in his...

1886 Map with Johntown, Georgia John Dilbeck was born in 1787 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Around 1839 he moved to Dawson...

On November 9th, 2022, I was a part of a thirty-five-person group of hikers that traveled to the Tate Mountain Estates area of...

In 1968, The Burnt Mountain Corporation was approached by a real estate developer named H. Dean Spratlin with a proposal. He wanted to...

Col. Sam Tate announced the creation of a 10,000-acre estate that would serve as a summer resort for wealthy Atlantans in 1929. At the...

The Great Depression of 1929 caused massive hardships across the United States of America. In response to the dire economic situation,...

Looking towards the mountains far brightened by a distant star they thought of all that they had seen Where they'd gone Where they'd been...

On Thursday, Mar 31st, guest speaker Chris Feldt gave a speech on various historical topics related to Pickens County that occurred...

In 1927 H.E. “Cy” Hawkins bought a bunch of land near where present-day Grandview Lake is. Cy was a former minor league baseball pitcher...

Pickens County has a history replete with convicts who escaped local authorities. This particular story took place near Sharptop Church...

Elizabeth Blink Drummond (nee Thomas) was born in 1906 while her family was stationed in Manilla. Her parents thought it cute that she...

The Late Great Professor Perrow By Chris Feldt “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...

Every noun holds a potential avenue for investigation with each noun connecting to other nouns in a web or a word cloud. Reconstructing...

Recently a photocopy of a hand drawn map of the way from Jasper and Tate to Mt. Burrell (now known as Burnt Mountain) has found its way...

In 1930, Colonel Sam Tate had just built his Tate Mountain Estates – which included his stunning Connahaynee Lodge, Lake Sequoyah and a...