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There are two sections of Mineral Springs Road in Pickens County, north and south. Oddly, the dividing line in our county is Highway 515. Mineral Springs North is east of 515, and south is west of 515. In 1895, The Republican, an early Pickens County paper mentioned both springs, although the distances to one of the two springs was incorrect. An 1895 ad about the benefits of living in Pickens County that also happens to refer to Jasper as the Mountain Queen City. This cha

The Body In the Well On Tuesday, February 22, 1949, a grey 1947 Chevrolet with a blue top with a sign that read Veteran’s Cab arrived at the Asta Café on Main Street in Jasper. The driver, Earl Holbert, thought it was going to be a short evening. He was right, but not in the way he planned. G. "Earl" Holbert Around 6 p.m. Earl had picked up a passenger at the cafe (inside what is now the Old Mule House building). At 7 p.m. he traveled to Low’s Service Station in Talki

In mid-December of 1942, A little over a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Joe Loggins, 31, of Nelson, Georgia, was incarcerated in the Old Jail on Jasper's Main Street. The previous Wednesday, December 16, Joe had gone to his in-law's house in a drunken stupor to confront his wife. He grabbed his youngest daughter Nancy and fled the scene to his brother-in-law's house and an arrest warrant was issued. Later that night Joe was apprehended by the Pickens County Sheriff

The metal jail cells of the Old Jail as seen in the early 80s. Many a ghost hunter have claimed they've encountered spirits of the dead in the Old Pickens County Jail on Main Street in Jasper. Reports and rumors abound of the death of two prisoners hung by the gallows. Official reports emphatically state that no prisoner was ever executed from the gallows during the seventy plus years the jail was operational. And yet, newspapers from the 80s made the claim that two priso

For Our Defense Aerial of the Jasper Airport built in December 1941, less than three weeks after Pearl Harbor (photo by J.H. Dilbeck) In December 1942, not even a month had passed since the horrendous attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, when a group of men from Pickens County leased a section of land about three quarters of a mile north of town on the east side of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Their purpose? To build Pickens County's first airport as a defensive

Many newcomers to Jasper drive past Church Street and Burnt Mountain Road, look at the Walgreens without giving it a second thought. Some residents likely remember when Greystone Village had been there - a series of small shops and a restaurant known as the Yellow Bird. A few elders who lived their whole lives here might remember the Greystone as a reincarnation of the Archer Tourist Court. Fewer still remember the Archer Hotel which burned down at the site back in 1947.

The Perseverance Quarry can still be seen on the north side of Cove Road. In the 1850s Summey and Hurlick operated a marble operation there for a few years. Prior to them, the discoverer of Georgia marble, Henry Fitzsimmons had owned the site before being murdered by an unknown assailant. The Cove Mine, a.k.a. The Perseverence Quarry About three decades later, James Harrison of Atlanta, the owner of the Atlanta Printing Company, leased the land near the Perseverance Quarry

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

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...

The actual woodbridge to the Woodbridge Inn The beginnings of Jasper, the Woodbridge inn, and the hospitality industry in Northwest Georgia go back to 1805. In that year, the State of Georgia expended $5,000 surveying a route from what is now Flowery Branch in Hall County, GA, through the Cherokee Nation to the Tennessee state line. Eventually this trail went on to Nashville, Tennessee. The Federal Road was negotiated by Federal treaty (hence, the name) but surveyed by the st

Reported photo of Elias Allred My late grandfather John Richards Davis, in speaking about his ancestry, said that he knew little of the Allreds except that their lineage had been traced many times. He was correct although, with such a big and far flung family, much remains unknown about its many branches. Some of what is in print is incorrect. One of the m

During the 19th and 20th centuries, many counties in the United States had places where the indigent could live and take shelter. They...

As with Lindsey Williams Evans, Carter Lee Smith, C.L. “Seal” (a pronunciation of the C and L together) Smith, was determined not to spend a life in jail. He was convicted and sentenced to life along with Hoyt Evans. Carter Wilson and Carter Jones were sentenced to 12 months of hard labor. Like Lindsey Evans and his wife, Carter, and Rosetta Harriet Matilda Rosetta Smith, nee McCollum, gave birth to a daughter about two weeks before Cape was murdered. Once incarcerated, C

Policeman Lee Cape had always suspected his enemies would eventually get him. But he would tell his friends, “but when they do, I’ll be so old I won’t have lost too many years anyway.” William Lee Cape, better known as Lee Cape, spent the better part of four decades in law enforcement. Lee was born two years before the Civil War began and by the age of 18, had moved in with his grandmother who lived in Pickens County. Lee had a reputation by his early 20s of being a tough g

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

In searching through the archives of deeds at the county, I came across this map of the town of Jasper dated March 5th, 1883. The chief engineer of the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad Company, F.S. Wallace, drew this map up to demonstrate the lands that were conveyed to help facilitate the passage of the railroad through the town of Jasper. The map is below along with what I could make of the penmanship of the document. {Georgia, {Pickens County: For the purpose of e