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Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Feb 255 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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Feb 163 min read

The Tragedies of Steele's Bridge: Both of them.

Most people from Pickens and Dawson County are familiar with the metal span bridge over the Amicalola River. Spanning 80 feet over a...

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Feb 133 min read

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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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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Feb 13, 20234 min read

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory of Dawson County

During the Cold War, Lockheed Martin partnered with the Air Force to build a remote secret laboratory in the middle of a 10,000-plus acre...

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