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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 gone to the private lake of the Roy Roper Yellow Creek Church. They borrowed a motor from a friend to place on their aluminum boat for a ride. The pond in 2024 The Roper Farm on the 1903 Henley Map Lake today, lower right corner The Roper Lake was a spring-fed four-acre lake about 12 to 15 feet deep. It is located roughly a mile west of t

Being curious, detail-oriented, and courageous are the most important inherited traits of an explorer. While you can teach people how to read maps, look at aerial photography, and determine latitude and longitude, you cannot make someone curious. Like color blindness, you’re either born curious or not. Assuming your curiosity led you to this article, I will teach you the basics of RUREX. If URBEX = Urban Exploration, I will assume RUREX means Rural Exploration. If not, I

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

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

In February of 1884, a tornado visited Pickens County and cut a 15-mile path, leaving several residents dead (including the Cagle and other families) A vivid description of the tornado is in the Feb 21, 1884 cover of the Atlanta Constitution. Cagletown began in 1869 and today is known merely as Cagle. Historically it was mostly an agricultural town started by the Cagle family that had first migrated from North Carolina to the Hickory log section of Cherokee County until t

Standing not more than a mile away from Long Swamp Baptist Church is the old Coward' homestead. The Cowards had moved here (then Cherokee County) from Rutherford, North Carolina around 1840. On December 14th, 1843 James Coward, Jr. bought 160 acres of Land Lot 8, section Four of Cherokee County from Samuel Tate. The house in 2021 The second incarnation of Long Swamp Baptist Church. The original church was dest