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The portrait of Col. Sam Tate is displayed in the Tate High School On May 23, 1926, the citizens of Tate presented a stately portrait of Col. Sam Tate by Charles F. Naegle at the Tate High School. A large group of the Tate citizenry, Tate family members, and workers from Georgia Marble attended the presentation at the Tate High School. The portrait was commissioned by funds raised by the residents of Tate and the Tate family themselves. The following text contains the speech

Colonel Sam Tate was remembered in the Pickens Progress by journalist Margaret Shannon from the Atlanta Journal Constitution as having traveled to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that perfectly matched the marble found in the Tate quarries. The article mentions Col. Tate's travels to the Taj Mahal in India and returning with a snow white piece of marble that matched the Tate marble. A picture of the Taj Mahal from Tate's visit. Sam also

On March 11 , 1927, Col Sam Tate boarded the S.S. Homeric, a White Star Line ocean liner. He crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Southampton, England eight days later. Col. Tate visited England and Scotland before heading to Monaco, Pompeii, and Egypt. His return voyage for New York departed on March 30, 1927 and he arrived on April 7, 1927. According to the Pickens Progress, dated April 14, 1927, it took him two days to return to Tate on Saturday the 9th. The S.S. Homer

A young Ace Patterson On Christmas Eve 1925, 80-year-old Asa Patterson a.k.a. Ace and Uncle Asa was pulled over in Pickens County. Asa assumed he was being stopped for something in which he was not. Asa had traveled to Jasper from South Carolina to visit his son. The season's sentiments had gotten a hold of him and he badly missed his son. To the prohibition agents' astonishment, he told them he was convicted of murdering a man during a drunken game of cards in Marble

McNair's Stand in 1930. From left to right are Robert Bruce Ross (a Cherokee from Oklahoma), Judge Charles Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll Jones and Mrs. Buster Jones. Captain David McNair (1774–1836) was an early colonial son who later married Chief James Vann's daughter Delilah in 1801. Captain McNair earned the rank of captain fighting in the War of 1812. He also fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend while being mustered in Colonel Morgan's Regim

Vann's House as seen in 1934. In 1803, deep in Cherokee Territory, Chief James Vann, a Half-Scot, half-Cherokee, set in motion the construction of what would be the grandest home in all of the Cherokee Nation. Set on over 800 acres in a place known as Vann's Place, the massive brick mansion was built. Vann's seen on an 1822 map of Georgia. Notice it is along the path of the Federal Road Chief Vann (1768-1809) was a wealthy Cherokee and large slaveholder, having over 100 sl

A little more than two years before the murder/suicide of R.W. Randell and his wife, he tried selling his property in Whitepath as an investment opportunity. In late summer of 1947, Redden ran an ad in the Atlanta Journal. It read as follows: RESORT FOR SALE OR LEASE ALL OF WHITE BATH SPRINGS, GA., property, as a whole, now for sale or long-term lease for development of this once famous, popular summer resort located in heart of Blue Ridge mountains, Gilmer County, Ga., b

We left off at Redden W. Randell's sentencing of 5 years for the murder of Theodore Samms in November of 1949. Two months later, on January 14, 1950, Redden went to the Lawrence A. Powell Funeral Home and ordered a $250 wooden coffin for himself to be delivered to Madison, Florida, where the first woman he murdered was buried. Redden told the funeral home that his wife would pay for the expenses later. The next day, he wrote a suicide note and left it on a ledge in his pan

In 1938, Redden married Evelyn Ray of Gilmer County. She was 12 years his junior. At the time Redden was 49 and his bride was 23. Redden and his young bridge pose beneath the stucco arch in front of the old White Path Hotel property. Ten years later, at one of R.W. Randell's rentals events were set in motion that would set a course for disaster. Another Murder On February 1, 1949, Mr. Randell and his wife traveled together to collect rent from one of his African-American t

The Beginning White Path, a small hamlet in the mountains of North Georgia, takes its name from the famous Cherokee Indian leader who disagreed with the policies of European assimilation and acculturation. He lived in a small village in the Cherokee Territory known as Turniptown, not far north from present day Ellijay, Georgia. When the Cherokee were rounded up into removal forts, White Path was likely at Fort Hetzel and later forced to leave his homeland to walk the Trail