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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

Many longtime residents of Ellijay have walked to the abandoned railroad trestle of the old Marietta and North Georgia Railroad/Later...

As with most counties in America, Cherokee County has several family cemeteries. Back in the days of the early settlers of a county, in...

Lime Kilns can be seen just above center right in this Civil War era map. During the Civil War, old maps show two lime kilns located just...

The ruins of a spring house remain down a hill behind Stamp Creek Baptist Church near the village of White in Bartow County, Georgia. One...

The Southern Marble Company can be seen in Land Lot 106, of District 4, in the 1903 Pickens County map. In the 1890s the Southern Marble...

If you're a fan of using Google Maps for navigation, you'll be surprised to know their directions to the Corpsewood Manor Parking site is...

The American Ethnologist James Mooney released his book on Cherokee legends in 1888. Only one sentence refers to a Cherokee council site....

At the turn of the 20th Century, Forsyth County was mostly rural and white. There were small contingents of African Americans living in...