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On the afternoon of April 2nd, 2025, Pickens County resident Jessica McCabe found a cannonball near the bridge off Swan Bridge road

The Poet Bury me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and...

The history of violence, especially when used to protect tradition, and/or fighting against a centralized power structure is frequently...

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...

For years, I regularly contributed articles to the now gone North Georgia Journal and Georgia Backroads. In the process, I learned much...

Many millions in eastern North America live within a short distance of amazing ruins as old as two millennia but do not know it....

During the Civil War and for several decades that followed, criminals and vigilantes from various places around the United States would...

In 1890, a small hamlet in south-central Pickens County named Jockey arose near the Cagle Mills on Sharp Mountain Creek.    A post office...

A few years ago, I ran across a reference for a reported moonshine still in a North Georgia gated community. Initially, I had doubts...

(1884 - 2023) Since 1884, the year of the first documented tornado in Pickens County, there have been many minor and several devasting...

In February of 1884, a tornado visited Pickens County and cut a 15-mile path, leaving several residents dead (including the Cagle and...

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

61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton, a.k.a. The National Forest Serial Killer, finally got caught in 2008 after committing a grizzly series...

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...

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...

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

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

If you ask old-time residents of Pickens County, they'll tell you that Murphy Bottom off of Jerusalem Church Road (near two branches of...

The Georgia Forestry Commission keeps a list of all of the champion trees of different species within our state. A champion tree is the...