WebmasterMar 83 min readThe Last Stockade When the Indian Removal happened in 1838, a series of stockades were built in Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee to round...
WebmasterFeb 273 min readTate's Saw Mill - 1869In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...
Robert Scott Davis Jr.Feb 255 min readThe First European Settlement of North Georgia and Pickens County in the American RevolutionFor years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...
WebmasterFeb 133 min readLong 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...