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The summer of 1951 was a little hotter than normal. And that June 10th, Roxie Lee Blackwell Hendrix, her children, and a few others had...

Amicalola Electrical Membership Co-operative began in 1940 as one of the last electrical membership co-ops. Rather than benefiting from...

CLICK HERE TO BUY TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: A COMPENDIUM OF NORTH GEORGIA HISTORY After four years of research and countless hours and...

Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer.  While you can teach people how to...

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 heart of the Civil War, Pickens County was torn between sides. The flag that flew over the courthouse yard was a Union flag. ...

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

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

On November 9th, 2022, I was a part of a thirty-five-person group of hikers that traveled to the Tate Mountain Estates area of...

In 1968, The Burnt Mountain Corporation was approached by a real estate developer named H. Dean Spratlin with a proposal. He wanted to...

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

Elizabeth Blink Drummond (nee Thomas) was born in 1906 while her family was stationed in Manilla. Her parents thought it cute that she...

Recently a photocopy of a hand drawn map of the way from Jasper and Tate to Mt. Burrell (now known as Burnt Mountain) has found its way...

In 1930, Colonel Sam Tate had just built his Tate Mountain Estates – which included his stunning Connahaynee Lodge, Lake Sequoyah and a...

The Whittington Family only lived in the land that is part of Bent Tree for a little over a decade. Where did they go after they left?...

For 40 years the Whittington Home occupied part of the land where the sixth hole of the Bent Tree golf course is. Was this house the...

Sallie Doss' chimney is the stuff of legend When you think of Sallie Doss, what comes to mind? She was a widowed landowner that bought...