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The Body In the Well On Tuesday, February 22, 1949, a grey 1947 Chevrolet with a blue top had a sign on it that read Veteran’s Cab arrived at the Asta Café on Main Street in Jasper. The driver, Earl Holbert, thought it was going to be a short evening. He was right, but not in the way he planned. G. "Earl" Holbert Around 6 pm Earl had picked up a passenger at the Asta Café on Main Street (inside what is now the Old Mule House building). Around 7 pm he traveled to Low’s

The weaver school changed locations depending on the map you've looked at. Around 1900 it was located within the area that is now Big Canoe. By the 1910s it was located near the entrance of Cove Lake off of Cove Road on Land Lot 91. Like most schools of its day, there was one teacher, and a small group of about 30 local students who attended. Most of the students stayed until about 8th grade. Most of the students had surnames like Blackwell, Cox, and Padgett - families w

For Our Defense Aerial of the Jasper Airport built in December 1941, less than three weeks after Pearl Harbor (photo by J.H. Dilbeck) In December 1942, not even a month had passed since the horrendous attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, when a group of men from Pickens County leased a section of land about three quarters of a mile north of town on the east side of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Their purpose? To build Pickens County's first airport as a defensive

Many newcomers to Jasper drive past Church Street and Burnt Mountain Road, look at the Walgreens without giving it a second thought. Some residents likely remember when Greystone Village had been there - a series of small shops and a restaurant known as the Yellow Bird. A few elders who lived their whole lives here might remember the Greystone as a reincarnation of the Archer Tourist Court. Fewer still remember the Archer Hotel which burned down at the site back in 1947.

The Myth The folktale goes like this: There's a haunted house in the south of Gilmer County where the owner used to pick up and send his mail. All the kids in Gilmer called it the Elf House. The builder was a lawyer from New York or the Midwest. He retired and moved to North Georgia and built the Elf House so his rejected manuscripts would have a place to land because they wouldn't fit in a regular mailbox. It was said he only lived there for ten years in a small house wi

When Bent Tree was being designed in the late 60s, Atlanta-based developer Spratlin and Associates hired two different firms to map out the planned locations of facilities and roads. Zachery W. Henderson & Associates and landscape architects Hudson - Welch and Associates mapped out the layout. While some of the primary areas like the front gate and the Clubhouse location (later named Club Tamarack) remained true to their original planned locations, other areas like the over-

Roads passing through Clayton—Highways 441/23 and 76 and Warwoman Road—are daily reminders of a distant past when the Appalachians in northeastern Georgia were known as the Cherokee Mountains. And in the land that became Rabun County, the major Cherokee trails, which are now our highways and byways, converged at The Dividings in present-day Clayton. Early explorers and settlers classified the Cherokee into three groupings, depending on their location and dialect: Lower, Midd

This information is based on interviews conducted with Colonel Lemuel J. Allred and Mr. James Simmons, by the Ellijay Courier newspaper in 1887. Not long after Pickens County was carved out of Cherokee County and Gilmer in 1853 by legislation drafted by Colonel Lemuel Allred, a new town was proposed as the county seat. James Simmons, the former legislator who moved to the area in 1835 and lived in Colonel Haney Nelson's old Tavern along the Federal Road, originally proposed

Everyone who has driven to the town square has driven by the old Sam Penland Store (currently the Ellijay Florist) on River Street. Sam Penland hails from the same family which started Penland's Orchards. Sam Penland began operating out of the River Street location in 1914 as a merchandise store. Sam Penland and his son in front of the store. The faded mural on the wall shows an advertisement for Ballard's Obelisk Flour. Ballard's Obelisk Flour was produced in Memphis,

On March 6th, 1963, About 25 men from the Gilmer County Public Works camp started their early day working at a rock quarry located on the northwest side of Highway 52 near the present day Oak Hill Independent Church. The night before had been filled with heavy rain. As soon as their day began, two prisoners and a guard were caught in an unexpected landslide. A guard named F. M. Miles, and two prisoners, Robert Hamby and Lawrence Mulkey were trapped under the debris. Twent