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In 1850, Tate, Atkinson, and Company opened a marble quarry near the Georgia Marble Company's present location. Three years later, Pickens County was officially formed. After the Civil War, the Tate family was operating a sawmill on Long Swamp Creek in the section that is colloquially called Pendley Creek. At the time, a main road came north from Tate and bisected the old Dawsonville Jasper Highway (Cove Road) before heading directly to the sawmill. Afterward, the road

(1884 - 2023) Since 1884, the year of the first documented tornado in Pickens County, there have been many minor and several devasting...

Downed trees and power lines on Fitts Rd, a week after the tornado blew through the street. On Thursday afternoon, July 20, 2023, two tornadoes ripped through East and West Pickens County. The tornadoes were confirmed by the National Weather Service on July 21, 2023. One was spotted on Fitts Road, just north of Cove Rd, and east of Bent Tree Community. The other was spotted along Carver Mill Road near Hinton. The intensity of the storm lasted for less than an hour, and y

Before Grandview Lake, or the Salvation Army Camp existed, for a brief time Grandview Summer Colony was a burgeoning place to relax during the warmer months. In 1927, H.E. “Cy” Hawkins, a former minor league baseball pitcher in Carrolton, Georgia bought a bunch of land near where present-day Grandview Lake is. Cy was the salesman and brains of the operation and his brother (Ira) Tanner was the builder. Cy and his brother Tanner became land developers. They bought up much of