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Robert Scott Davis Jr.
Mar 11, 202423 min read
LIGHT AND THEN POWER: SIXTY YEARS OF A NORTH GEORGIA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CO-OP (2001)
Amicalola Electrical Membership Co-operative began in 1940 as one of the last electrical membership co-ops. Rather than benefiting from...
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Feb 16, 20243 min read
The Tragedies of Steele's Bridge: Both of them.
Most people from Pickens and Dawson County are familiar with the metal span bridge over the Amicalola River. Spanning 80 feet over a...
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Sep 25, 20232 min read
Cherokee Corners / Galagi-Na
In researching the family Summerour of North Georgia, I made a surprising series of connections. Henry Harrison Summerour moved to...
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Feb 13, 20234 min read
The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory of Dawson County
During the Cold War, Lockheed Martin partnered with the Air Force to build a remote secret laboratory in the middle of a 10,000-plus acre...
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Feb 6, 20233 min read
The National Forest Serial Killer, Huddle House, and the Dawsonville Wildlife Management Area
61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton, a.k.a. The National Forest Serial Killer, finally got caught in 2008 after committing a grizzly series...
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Jan 9, 20232 min read
Young Potts Cemetery
In 1829, a man named Young Potts moved to Dawson County from South Carolina. He hit the ground running and made a small fortune in his...
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Christopher
Dec 2, 20222 min read
John Dilbeck and the lost town of Johntown (Dawson County)
1886 Map with Johntown, Georgia John Dilbeck was born in 1787 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Around 1839 he moved to Dawson...
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Christopher
Dec 9, 20203 min read
The Moving of the Appalachian Trail, the Oglethorpe Monument and Free-Range Chickens (1958)
In 1930, Colonel Sam Tate had just built his Tate Mountain Estates – which included his stunning Connahaynee Lodge, Lake Sequoyah and a...
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