The Howard Plantation of Bartow County
Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New...
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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.
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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 273 min read
Tate's Saw Mill - 1869
In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...
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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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Feb 202 min read
The Fire-Eater/Diamond Furnace of North Georgia
This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands...
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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 263 min read
The Keith Plantation of Cherokee County
According to local sources, the Keith Plantation near Canton, GA, in present-day Keithsburg* during the Civil War. The property held...
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The Murder of Peter Cantrell
Peter Cantrell's grave marker, not at actual site of his murder, placed by Dutch Cantrell of Canton. Located on private property on LL...
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