The Last Stockade
When the Indian Removal happened in 1838, a series of stockades were built in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee to round...
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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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Mar 62 min read
North Georgia History Book Available (Digital and Print)
CLICK HERE TO BUY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: A COMPENDIUM OF NORTH GEORGIA HISTORY After four years of research and countless hours and...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 55 min read
The First European Settlement of North Georgia and Pickens County in the American Revolution
For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...
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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.
Mar 38 min read
The Bizarre Sharp Mountain Revival of 1873
Historian Bernice McCullar provided, through her popular Atlanta newspaper column, Georgia Notebook many Georgians of her day with all of...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 27 min read
A Night of Terror: The Whitestone Flood of 1938
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...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 12 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 283 min read
Rural Exploration (RUREX): How to Find Historical Sites)
Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer. While you can teach people how to...
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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Feb 2818 min read
THE LOST HISTORY OF AN ALLRED FAMILY OF NORTH GEORGIA
My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...
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