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Charles Walker's conceptual drawing of an Indian Removal fort. Nearly 190 years ago, in what is now Cherokee County, more specifically in...

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

Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia.  After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New...

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...

My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their...

In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later,...

The home guards remain one of the most confusing aspects of the history of the Civil War in Georgia. Family tales and reminiscences...

This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands...

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...

The Keith Plantation of Cherokee County The overgrown entrance to the Keith Plantation. Note the main house in the background According...

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...

In 1804, the Cherokee Indians had negotiated the terms of the creation of a Federal Road that ran between Tennessee to Augusta, Georgia. ...

Peter Cantrell's grave marker, not at actual site of his murder, placed by Dutch Cantrell of Canton. Located on private property on LL...